In a major reshuffle of the West Bengal Council of Ministers on Wednesday, eight new MLAs were inducted as Ministers in the government headed by Mamata Banerjee. Five new Cabinet Ministers, including Babul Supriyo, were sworn in at the Raj Bhawan. The new Ministers also included three Ministers of State. The Cabinet reshuffle was necessitated after Partha Chatterjee’s arrest and the State government relieving him from the ministerial responsibilities.
Mr. Supriyo, a former Union Minister quit the Bharatiya Janata Party in September 2021 after being dropped from the Union Council of Ministers. He was elected from the Ballygunge Assembly seat on the Trinamool Congress ticket in April 2022. The four other Cabinet Ministers sworn in are Snehasish Chakraborty, Partha Bhowmick, Udayan Guha and Pradip Majumdar.
