KOLKATA: R N Ravi entered Lok Bhavan in Kolkata on Wednesday evening hours after the outgoing Governor left the city in the afternoon. Ravi will take oath as the new Governor of West Bengal on Thursday amid controversy in connection with his predecessor C V Ananda Bose’s sudden removal about 20 months before his tenure was scheduled to end in 2027. Ravi, a retired IPS officer of the 1976 batch who served as Governor of Tamil Nadu, will take oath at Lok Bhavan, erstwhile Raj Bhavan, at 11 am on Thursday. She also attacked the new Governor, branding him as ‘BJP cadre.’Mamata on Saturday slammed Ravi, terming him a "BJP cadre" and virtually signalling an escalating face-off between the state secretariat Nabanna and Lok Bhavan in the coming days. She claimed that the sudden resignation of C V Ananda Bose as Governor of West Bengal was the result of pressure allegedly created by the BJP-led government at the Centre.

Source: Indian Express March 11, 2026 18:44 UTC