India, May 9 -- Retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Subrata Gupta has been appointed as adviser to newly elected West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari who took oath in a high-profile ceremony in Kolkata on Saturday.

The state government announced the decision via an official order on Saturday, ANI reported.

Gupta is 1990-batch IAS officer and was earlier appointed by the Election Commission of India (ECI) as the Special Roll Observer for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise conducted ahead of the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly elections.

The BJP defeated the TMC in the elections by securing 207 seats, pushing Mamata's party to 80 and ending her 15-year-long stint in Bengal.

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