Over three weeks after the BJP formed its first government in the state following the Assembly elections, West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari expanded his ministry on Monday as 35 BJP lawmakers took oath as ministers at Lok Bhavan in Kolkata.
As part of the reorganisation of the cabinet, thirteen ministers were added, three of whom had independent responsibility, and nineteen ministers of state. But portfolio distribution has not been declared yet.
Deepak Barman, Tapas Roy, Dr. Shankar Ghosh, Manoj Kumar Oraon, Arjun Singh, Gouri Shankar Ghosh, Swapan Dasgupta, Jagannath Chattopadhyay, Kalyan Chakraborty, Ajay Poddar, Dr. Saradwat Mukherjee, Dudh Kumar Mondal, and Anup Kumar Das are the thirteen recently appointed cabinet ministers.
As a result of the most recent growth, the West Bengal government now includes a total of nineteen cabinet members, including the chief minister.
On May 9, Adhikari and five other ministers (Agnimitra Paul, Dilip Ghosh, Nisith Pramanik, Ashok Kirtaniya, and Khudiram Tudu) took the oath of office as chief ministers.
The three members of the BJP who were sworn in as Ministers of State with independent charge are Indranil Khan, Malati Rava Roy, and Rajesh Mamahato.
On top of that, nineteen lawmakers were sworn in as ministers of state. Joel Murmu, Anandamay Barman, Ashok Dinda, Navadar Chand Bauri, Vishal Lama, Shantanu Pramanik, Moumita Biswas Mishra, Umesh Ray, Purnima Chakravarty, Kaushik Chowdhury, Bhaskar Bhattacharya, Dibakar Gharami, Amiya Kisku, Kalita Majhi, Gargi Das Ghosh, Biraj Biswas, Dipankar Jana, and Sumana Sarkar are all part of this group.
At 11 a.m., Governor R.N. Ravi presided over the swearing-in ceremony at Lok Bhavan, which had previously been announced by Chief Secretary Manoj Kumar Agarwal.
After the oath-taking ceremony, the newly-minted ministers were meant to make their way to the state secretariat in Nabanna for a cabinet meeting later that day, with the Chief Minister serving as chairperson. The meeting is anticipated to conclude with the ministers’ portfolios being confirmed.
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