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West Bengal Cabinet rejig: Mamata Banerjee to induce 4-5 new members

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West Bengal Cabinet rejig: Mamata Banerjee to induce 4-5 new members
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Kolkata (West Bengal) , August 1: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced that there will be a Cabinet reshuffle in the state and will take place on Wednesday.
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Mamata Banerjee stated that, "We will do a reshuffle on Wednesday. There will be 4-5 new faces." cabinet4 Also Read: Indian Army, several political leaders’ lauds Achinta Sheuli over his gold medal lift at CWG This comes soon after former minister Partha Chatterjee was arrested by Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the SSC recruitment scam case. Chatterjee was minister-in-charge of the departments of industry, commerce and enterprises, IT and electronics, parliamentary affairs and public enterprises, and industrial reconstruction. The CM took charge of several departments after the arrest of Partha Chatterjee.
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cabinet5 Banerjee now holds charge of 11 departments, including the four held by Partha Chatterjee. Bengal CM added that, "Many of them are writing a lot. We don't have a plan to dissolve the whole ministry and form a new one. Yes, there will be a reshuffle. We lost ministers Subrata Mukherjee, Sadhan Pande. Partha da is in jail so all their work has to be done. Not possible for me to handle alone.” The Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal today decided to carve out seven new districts out of the existing 23 districts by delimitation of their boundaries for better administration and development of the areas. cabinet3 Also Read: GST collections in July second highest-ever, climbs 28 pc year-on-year West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said, "Earlier there were 23 districts in Bengal now it has been increased to 30. The 7 new districts include - Sunderban, Ichhemati, Ranaghat, Bishnupur, Jangipur, Behrampur and one more district will be named in Basirhat." -PTC News-
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