Kolkata: The much awaited cabinet expansion of the first BJP government in West Bengal will take place on Monday when a new batch of 35 party MLAs will take their oath from governor RN Ravi at Lok Bhavan for their induction in the council of ministers headed by chief minister Suvendu Adhikari. With the entry of these ministers, the total number of cabinet members will grow to 41.
On Sunday, Mr Adhikari posted on X-handle, “Tomorrow, a full-fledged council of ministers of the nationalist government, elected by the mandate of West Bengal, is going to be formed. 35 ministers of the West Bengal Government will be sworn-in at 11 am in Lok Bhavan for the cabinet expansion. His Excellency Governor Shri R. N. Ravi will administer their oaths in Lok Bhavan.”
The BJP MLAs, whose names are doing rounds for cabinet berths this time, are economist Sanjeev Sanyal, two journalists: Swapan Dasgupta and Jagannath Chattopadhyay, two actors Roopa Ganguly and Rudranil Ghosh, two doctors: Indranil Khan and Sharadwat Mukherjee, former cricketer Ashok Dinda, Ritesh Tiwari, Tapas Roy, Arjun Singh, Sajal Ghosh, Shankar Ghosh, Noman Rai, Anandamoy Burman among others.
Since the government formation on May 9, Mr Adhikari has kept 42 portfolios with him and distributed the remaining 12 among his five cabinet colleagues– Dilip Ghosh, Agnimitra Paul, Asok Kirtania, Khudiram Tudu and Nishit Pramanik. While Mr Ghosh has become minister of three departments: panchayat and rural development, animal resource department and agriculture marketing, Ms Paul has got two: women and child development and social welfare and municipal affairs.
Two more departments, food and supplies and cooperation, went to Mr Kirtania and three others— tribal development, backward classes welfare and minority affairs and madrasah education— were allocated to Mr Tudu. Nishit Pramanik has been made ministers of two departments— North Bengal development and youth services & sports.
After the cabinet expansion, Mr Adhikari will chair a meeting with the four state government employees’ unions about the fate of the release of outstanding dearness allowance to them.
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