Politician decrees Indian city of Kolkata will be painted blue and white

Planters have been painted blue and white along a major street in Kolkata, India.

Residents wait at a newly painted bus stop in Kolkata, india.

The 15-story temporary headquarters of the West Bengal state government in India has been repainted in blue and white under the orders of the state’s chief minster, Mamata Banerjee.

A taxi matches the new color scheme at a police checkpoint near the Hooghly River in Kolkata, India.

Taxi driver Akhil Yadhav steers his old yellow taxi through the newly painted blue and white streets of Kolkata, India.