Overview
- Suvendu Adhikari met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 22 and said he received promises of "all possible help, guidance and Central support" for West Bengal's development.
- Adhikari also held separate calls with President Droupadi Murmu, Vice‑President C. P. Radhakrishnan, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and senior BJP leaders to coordinate policy and administration.
- Officials and Adhikari reported that discussions focused on securing faster disbursal of central funds, a possible special financial package and restarting centrally sponsored programmes such as Ayushman Bharat.
- The chief minister publicly pushed a hardline immigration stance, saying identified Bangladeshi infiltrators will be deported rather than kept in detention, and he raised operational border steps including fencing and BSF deployment.
- The visit also served organisational aims for the new BJP government in Kolkata by advancing plans for cabinet expansion, signalling closer cooperation with New Delhi and consolidating the party's political gains after April's election.