Kolkata, August 3: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday expanded
the state cabinet, first after the Trinamool Congress returned to power for the third time in 2021.
The ministers were Babul Supriyo, Partha Bhowmick, Snehasis Chakraborty, Udayan Guha, Tajmool Hossain, Pradip Majumder, Satyajit Barman, Biplab Majumder and Birbaha Hansda.
Acting Governor La Ganesan administered the oath of office to the newly inducted ministers.
Ministers in-charge were Babul Supriyo, Udyan Guha, Pradip Majumder, Snehashish Chakraborty and Partha Bhowmik.
Minister of State (Independent Charge) were Birbaha Hansda and Biplab Ray Chowdhury.
Barring Hansda, who was earlier Minister of State, all were new faces.
Ministers of State were Tajmool Hossain and Satyajit Barman.
Banerjee earlier said several departments were currently functioning without any dedicated
minister due to which the reshuffle was necessary.
While Subrata Mukherjee and Sadhan Pandey passed away, Partha Chatterjee was recently arrested by the Enforcement Directorate.
