New Delhi, May 11 -- West Bengal's Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Manoj Agarwal, has been appointed Chief Secretary of the Suvendu Adhikari-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the state, an official order issued on Monday said.

This came a week after the assembly election results were declared and two days after Adhikari took oath as the first BJP Chief Minister of the state.

The order also stated that the incumbent Chief Secretary Dushyant Nariala has been appointed as Principal Resident Commissioner in New Delhi. Nariala, a 1993-batch IAS officer, had earlier been named Chief Secretary by the election authorities, replacing Nandini Chakravorty in the post of the state's top bureaucrat.

Agarwal, a 1990-batch IAS officer of ...