Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) expanded its cabinet with a reshuffle. After the recent slacking of Partha Chatterjee amid corruption charges in SSC Job Recruitment Scam. Babul Supriyo, Partha Bhowmick, Senhashish Chakraborty, Udayan Guha, Pradip Majumdar, Biplab Roy Choudhary, Birbaha Hasda, Tajmul Hossian, and Satyajit Barman were inducted into the Cabinet, to take oath on August 3.
The cabinet reshuffle, the first since the TMC returned to power for the third consecutive term last year, comes amid the party facing the heat over the arrest of senior minister Partha Chatterjee by the ED over the school jobs scam.
Ms. Mamata Banerjee had on Monday carried out a major overhaul in her party and announced that a cabinet reshuffle will take place on Wednesday.
Nine new ministers to be inducted into the new cabinet are as follows:
