43-member cabinet takes oath in 3rd Mamata govt

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee retained six portfolios for herself while inducting 20 new faces on Monday in the 43-member cabinet for her third stint in office.

Banerjee retained some of the most important portfolios such as home and hills affairs, health and family welfare, land and land reforms, personnel and administrative reforms and information and cultural affairs, among others.

“There are nine women ministers (including Banerjee herself), seven ministers representing the minority community and four each from the SC and ST communities,” Banerjee said.

On Banerjee’s team are 24 ministers of cabinet rank, 10 ministers of state with independent charge, and nine other ministers of state. Among the new

KOLKATA:

KOLKATA: Suvendu Adhikari, the Nandigram strongman who defeated his former mentor Mamata Banerjee in the recent assembly elections in West Bengal, will now face off against her as leader of Opposition in the state assembly .

“As leader of Opposition my first priority will be to

ministers sworn in was former finance minister Amit Mitra. Among the new faces given ministerial berths was ex-cricketer Manoj Tiwari.

Soon after distributing the berths, Banerjee held the first carry out a movement to free Bengal of political violence and establish parliamentary democracy,” said Adhikari. BJP national vice-president Mukul Roy proposed Adhikari’s name for the post when the BJP’S newly elected legislators met at the party’s election office in Kolkata on Monday.

cabinet meeting and hinted that her government prefers not to impose a lockdown despite a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases.

“If you impose a total lockdown then people won’t be able to earn a living,” she said.