New Delhi, May 12 -- The Congress has slammed the appointments of erstwhile chief election officer Manoj Agarwal as the new West Bengal chief secretary by the newly-inducted Suvendu Adhikari-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the state.

The opposition party has also flagged the appointed of Subrata Gupta as the chief advisor to Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari. The Congress party claimied that the appointments reflected the "brazen collusion and connivance" between the Election Commission and the BJP and said that there is not even an attempt to keep the collusion discrete or concealed.

West Bengal's Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Manoj Agarwal, was on 11 May appointed Chief Secretary of the Suvendu Adhikari-led BJP governmen...