Retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Subrata Gupta has been appointed as adviser to newly elected West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari who took oath in a high-profile ceremony in Kolkata on Saturday. File photo of Subrata Gupta The state government announced the decision via an official order on Saturday, ANI reported. Who is Subrata Gupta? Gupta is 1990-batch IAS officer and was earlier appointed by the Election Commission of India (ECI) as the Special Roll Observer for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise conducted ahead of the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly elections. Also read: How Vijay finally got Guv nod to take oath as TN CM: 6 parties, 5 days, 4 meetings, and a flight cancelled just in time The BJP defeated the TMC in the elections by securing 207 seats, pushing Mamata’s party to 80 and ending her 15-year-long stint in Bengal. As Bengal sees a change of power, the newly formed BJP government in West Bengal also named IAS officer Shantanu Bala as the Private Secretary to the Chief Minister. “The …