Kolkata/IBNS, May 8 -- The suspense over who will succeed Mamata Banerjee is expected to end soon as Union Home Minister Amit Shah arrived in Kolkata on Friday to chair a crucial BJP meeting to select the next Chief Minister of West Bengal.

Shah offers prayers at Dakshineswar

He was accompanied by BJP heavyweight Suvendu Adhikari and state BJP president Samik Bhattacharya.

The Home Minister is scheduled to chair a BJP legislative party meeting later in the evening to pick the party's legislative leader.

Suvendu Adhikari emerges frontrunner

Adhikari had also defeated Banerjee in Nandigram during the 2021 Assembly election.

Though his supporters are openly backing him for the top post, the 55-year-old leader said the BJP leadership's ...