India, May 6 -- Samik Bhattacharya on Wednesday announced that the oath-taking ceremony of the new Bharatiya Janata Party government in West Bengal will be held on May 9.

Addressing reporters, Bhattacharya said the swearing-in ceremony will take place at Kolkata's iconic Brigade Parade Ground from 10 am.

"The new BJP government will take oath on May 9 at 10 am," he said.

The BJP scripted a historic victory in the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly elections by winning a massive mandate and bringing an end to the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC)'s uninterrupted 15-year rule in the state.

The saffron party's emphatic win marked a major political shift in Bengal, where the TMC under Mamata Banerjee had dominated state politics for...