KOLKATA: Writers’ Buildings and several other govt offices in the city turned orange after dusk on Friday ahead of the inaugural day of the first-ever BJP govt to be sworn into office in Bengal. The illumination trials were held on Friday evening on the eve of the Saturday event.
Around 48 buildings, including the Assembly House, Kolkata Collectorate, KMC headquarters and Akashvani Bhavan, will be similarly illuminated with orange lights from 5.30 pm on Saturday.
Sources said the Greco-Roman facade of the Writers’, which will serve as the state secretariat once its restoration and renovation is completed, has been decked with thousands of orange rice bulbs.
Workers were seen hammering partitions into place, fitting switches, lights and other electrical fixtures, installing 40 misty fans and dozens of high-capacity ACs. an adjoining lift will also be functional to carry the rest of the staff While this elevator has a capacity of 15. Inside the Writers’ Buildings, where the newly anointed CM Suvendu Adhikari is expected to step in around afternoon after taking oath at Brigade followed by a trip to the Raj Bhavan to complete formalities, work was underway at a frantic pace to complete a makeshift Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) for the symbolic visit. A tall chair that appeared to be for the CM and others for prominent cabinet members were carried in.
Sources said Adhikari will take the VIP elevator to head straight to the third floor after arriving from Raj Bhavan on Saturday.