Kolkata: Former bureaucrat and 1977 IAS cadre of Kerala batch CV Ananda Bose on Wednesday sworn-in as the Governor of West Bengal at a simple ceremony in Raj Bhavan
here.
Calcutta High court chief justice Prakash Shrivastava administered the oath and secrecy of the
office of the governor in presence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and some of her cabinet colleagues and government top officials.
Among others present in the short and simple ceremony were former West Bengal governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi, along with his wife, speaker of the state assembly Biman Banerjee and Left Front chairman Biman Bose.
President Drapaudi Murmu on November 17 last appointed the 71-year-old former administrator as the governor of West Bengal.
Bose replaced La Ganesan as the governor. La Ganesan, the governor of Manipur was looking after the affairs of West Bengal as the additional charge after Jagdeep Dhankar quit the office to become the vice president of India.
Leader of the Opposition (LoP) Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday boycotted the swearing-in-ceremony of new governor C V Ananda Bose on the ground that his allocated seat at Raj Bhavan was in between two legislators, who won on BJP tickets and switched over to ruling Trinamool Congress.
" I won't be attending the ceremony as it's not possible for me to take a seat next to such objectionable persons," he said
"I've requested the Hon'ble Governor to kindly give me an appointment separately at any time according to his convenience. It's fine even if he asks me to visit today," the Nandigram MLA
wrote on his social post.
Former bureaucrat and 1977 IAS of Kerala cadre CV Ananda Bose was sworn in as the governor of West Bengal in presence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and some of her cabinet colleagues at Raj Bhavan.