India, May 10 -- A particularly sensitive front is the proposed implementation of the Uniform Civil Code within six months of assuming office,

32 a.m. on Saturday, Suvendu Adhikari - the Nandigram strongman, former Trinamool Congress Transport Minister turned BJP's most combative face in Bengal - took the oath of office as the ninth Chief Minister of West Bengal and the BJP's first Chief Minister at a teeming Brigade Parade Ground in central Kolkata, ending 14 years of Mamata Banerjee's unbroken rule.

The ceremony, held on the very maidan where the Left Front once consolidated its dominance, marked what Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing BJP workers in New Delhi after the May 4 results, called a moment when "the lotus has bloomed ...