Suvendu Adhikari

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Suvendu Adhikari (Bengali: শুভেন্দু অধিকারী, Bengali pronunciation: [ʃubʱend̪u od̪ʱikaɾi]; born 15 December 1970) is an Indian politician who is serving as the 9th chief minister of West Bengal since 2026. He is the first chief minister of West Bengal belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Having started his political career in the Indian National Congress in 1995, Adhikari later joined Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress in 1998. He was first elected to the West Bengal legislative assembly from Kanthi Dakshin in 2006. Between 2009 and 2016, Adhikari served as the member of Parliament for Tamluk, before returning to the state legislature in 2016, representing Nandigram. Adhikari became a minister in the second Mamata Banerjee-led state government, serving as overseeing the department of Transport from 2016 to 2020, department of Irrigation and Water Resources from 2018 to 2020, and department of Environment from 2018 to 2020. Citing disagreements, Adhikari resigned from the Trinamool...

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