Former Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) mayor and minister, Sovan Chatterjee, will take charge as the chairman of Newtown Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) in the coming days, after the West Bengal government resumes work post the festive season. Chatterjee quit the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in 2018 to join the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2019, is now back in his original party.

Apart from executing duties as mayor, Chatterjee also held portfolios of fire and engineering, housing and environment in the Mamata Banerjee government. Chatterjee, who was seen as a close aide of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at one time, is back in ‘Didi’s turf.’

“Sovan has been snuggling up to Didi for a while. So she (Mamata) let him live a few years in exile and brought him back. She (Mamata

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