Forty-three ministers will be sworn in as part of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Cabinet in West Bengal on Monday morning at the Raj Bha...
Forty-three ministers will be sworn in as part of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Cabinet in West Bengal on Monday morning at the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata, NDTV reported.
The team has 25 incumbent faces and 18 new ones. Twenty-four of the ministers have been given Cabinet ranks, 10 of them are ministers of state with independent charge, nine others are ministers of state.
24 Cabinet Ministers, 10 Ministers of Independent Charge and 9 Ministers of State will take oath in West Bengal Assembly on Monday. @DeccanHerald #BengalElection2021 pic.twitter.com/czUE2Xe0Df
— Soumya Das (@Soumyareporting) May 9, 2021
Trinamool Congress veterans Subrata Mukherjee, Partha Chatterjee, Firhad Hakim, Aroop Biswas, Sujit Bose, Chandrima Bhattacharya and Shashi Panja will be sworn in as Cabinet ministers once again.
Akhil Giri, from East Midnapore district has been appointed as the minister of state with independent charge. The list also includes two more names, Soumen Mahapatra and Seuli Saha, who are believed to be from the “anti-Adhikari camp”, according to The Telegraph.
The appointments assume significance as Suvendu Adhikari, once a close aide of Banerjee, defected to the Bharatiya Janata Party three months ahead of the elections and defeated the chief minister in the Nandigram constituency.
Two ministers, Amit Mitra and Bratya Basu will be administered the oath virtually due to poor health. Mitra, who...
