Kolkata, May 9 -- Central security forces were deployed outside the Kalighat residence of former chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday after BJP supporters gathered near her house and raised "Jai Shri Ram" slogans shortly after the swearing-in ceremony of the new BJP government in West Bengal.
The development came hours after Suvendu Adhikari took oath as the state's ninth chief minister at the Brigade Parade Ground in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several senior BJP leaders.
According to local sources, a group of BJP workers and supporters, many of them riding motorcycles, assembled near Banerjee's residence in Kalighat soon after the oath-taking ceremony concluded.
The supporters allegedly raised slogans outside...