West Bengal CM Adhikari holds Janata Darbar, listens to people’s grievances

West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari held his Janata Darbar at the BJP office on Saturday, June 13, 2026, where he heard people’s grievances on various issues and instructed officials to redress them immediately.

The first ‘janata darbar’ was held on 18 May. After taking over as Prime Minister, Mr. Adhikari announced the weekly schedule and said that citizens will be able to meet him directly every week.

On Saturday, June 13, 2026, families of people suffering from serious illnesses, healthcare workers and job seekers came in large numbers to express their complaints and inform the Prime Minister about the difficulties they are experiencing.

Karuna, one of the participants, said that she came to Janata Darbar to get financial help for her daughter’s treatment.

Another woman, Tanima Chatterjee, who is the program officer of the government’s Mission Vatsalya initiative, joined the CM’s weekly grievance redressal program seeking job security.

“We promote family-based, non-institutional care for children in distress. We have 876 staff in the state, but we have no job security. We only receive lump sum payments for our services.

“The previous government did nothing for us, but we hope the BJP government will make our jobs permanent,” he said.

Others said they came to file complaints against police and administrative authorities, claiming that the previous government tried to suppress murder cases and other crimes.

The weekly outreach initiative is increasingly emerging as one of the BJP government’s first public-facing governance practices after coming to power in Bengal. Similar models of public hearings are often prominent in BJP-ruled states and are envisioned by the party as tools for accessibility and faster grievance redressal.