{"id":134,"date":"2026-05-09T04:29:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=134"},"modified":"2026-05-09T04:29:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:29:03","slug":"bjp-names-chief-minister-in-west-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"BJP names chief minister in West Bengal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KOLKATA: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s party named a chief minister of West Bengal state on Friday, cementing its thumping win in key elections in the bastion long held by its adversary.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claimed a landmark 207 out of 294 seats in the legislative assembly in Monday\u2019s results, marking its first-ever electoral victory in the largely Bengali-speaking state of more than 100 million.<\/p>\n<p>The results should put Modi on a stronger footing while he battles a series of economic and foreign policy challenges, including high unemployment rates and a pending US trade deal, ahead of a general election in 2029.<\/p>\n<p>The BJP named Suvendu Adhikari as chief minister of West Bengal, the party\u2019s leader and Indian interior minister Amit Shah said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was decided unanimously,\u201d Shah told reporters after a meeting of BJP\u2019s elected members in the eastern state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s party named a chief minister of West Bengal state on Friday, cementing its thumping win in key elections in the bastion long held by its adversary. Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claimed a landmark 207 out of 294 seats in the legislative assembly in Monday\u2019s results, marking its first-ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}