kolkata bengal governordesignate c v ananda bose reached kolkata airport on tuesday morning four days after he was appointed to the gubernatorial post last thursday chief justice of calcutta high court prakash shrivastava will administer the oath to bose at raj bhavan at 1045 am on wednesdaychief minister mamata banerjee bengal assembly speaker biman banerjee leader of opposition suvendu adhikari and other political dignitaries will attend the oathtaking ceremonytrinamool congress ministers firhad hakim and sashi panja gave a warm welcome to the new governor at the airport chief secretary h k dwivedi and director general of police manoj malviya were present at the airport police gave him a guard of honourbengal is a great state want to be of some service to the people of bengal bose said the new governor was given a guided tour of raj bhavan in the afternoon in the evening bose went to kalighat to offer pujaa retired ias officer of the 1977 batch bose has been a favourite of prime minister narendra modi and his predecessor manmohan singhc v ananda bose got his name from his father p k vasudevan nair who was inspired by netaji subhas chandra bose and named him after the leaderthe new governor succeeds la ganesan who assumed office after jagdeep dhankhar put in his papers to contest for the vicepresidential electionsthe state government that had a strained relation with former governor dhankhar who later became the vicepresident of india looks to make a fresh start moving away from the past the opposition also banks on this retired ias officer and a member of the modi team who got a letter of appreciation from the pm after the 2014 lok sabha electionsgovernors in bengal from gopalkrishna gandhi to kesharinath tripathi had at times addressed peoples concerns even though it sounded bitter to the state government dhankhar as governor took it to a new high when there was a continuous discord between the government and its constitutional headwith the bengal rural polls and the lok sabha elections slated within a year or two the governor as constitutional head of the state will have a crucial role to play