Kolkata, May 9 -- High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh Dinesh Trivedi on Saturday said that the "public has come out in large numbers" ahead of the oath-taking of Suvendu Adhikari as the first-ever Chief Minister of West Bengal.

"When India became independent and the independence that Shyama Prasad Mukherjee had seen, in a real sense, today Bengal is getting that independence and has got it, and that is why today the entire public has come out in large numbers...This is the result of the hard work of BJP workers and Union Home Minister Amit Shah," he told ANI.

Suvendu Adhikari, who was elected as the leader of the BJP Legislative Party in West Bengal, is set to take oath as the state's first BJP Chief Minister today.

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