Suvendu Adhikari sworn in as West Bengal CM at Brigade Parade Ground. Only five ministers took oath, portfolios yet to be announced:
Khudiram Tudu (Adivasi), Nisith Pramanik (Rajbanshi), Ashoke Kirtania (Matua), Dilip Ghosh and Agnimitra Paul.
Tagore portrait, band music and Bengali cultural iconography marked the ceremony. Makhan Lal Sarkar, reportedly 97 and a compatriot of Syama Prasad Mookerjee, was on the dais.
Caste equations and cultural signalling firmly in place. Suvendu’s first stop: Tagore’s ancestral home, Jorasanko.