The West Bengal government led by Suvendu Adhikari expanded its cabinet on Monday, with 35 BJP MLAs taking oath as ministers. The new induction includes 13 cabinet ministers, taking the total strength of the state cabinet to 19, including the Chief Minister (Pics/X@BJP4Bengal)
Updated On: 2026-06-01 02:22 PM IST
Compiled by : Tarun Verma
The expansion of the West Bengal Cabinet comes over three weeks after the Suvendu Adhikari-led first Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government took the oath in the state after winning the Assembly elections
The 35 new ministers include 13 cabinet ministers— 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
Adhikari took oath as the Chief Minister on May 9. The five other cabinet members who took oath along with him on May 9 were Agnimitra Paul, Dilip Ghosh, Nisith Pramanik, Ashok Kirtaniya and Khudiram Tudu
With the induction of the three 13 new cabinet ministers, the total number of cabinet members in the new West Bengal government, including the Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari, increases to 19
At a colourful programme at Lok Sabha in Kolkata, which started exactly at 11 a.m., the swearing-in ceremony began with the Chief Secretary, Manoj Kumar Agarwal, reading out the names of the newly inducted ministers one after another
After taking the oath, the new ministers will go to the state secretariat of Nabanna. A meeting of the cabinet chaired by CM Adhikari has been convened at the state secretariat at 3 p.m.
