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Thirty-five BJP MLAs were sworn successful arsenic Ministers successful the West Bengal authorities connected Monday (June 1, 2026) astatine an lawsuit organised astatine Lok Bhawan. Kolkata.
West Bengal Governor R. N. Ravi administered oaths to 13 Cabinet Ministers, 3 Ministers of State (independent charge) and 19 different Ministers of State. With six Ministers, including the Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari taking the oath connected May 9, the full fig of Ministers has accrued to 41.
Also work | Follow the highlights of West Bengal Cabinet enlargement connected June 1, 2026
As per Article 164(1A) of the Constitution, the full fig of ministers, including the Chief Minister, successful the Council of Ministers successful a State shall not transcend 15%. West Bengal has 294 seats successful the State Legislative Assembly; therefore, the Council of Ministers tin person a maximum of 44 members. Portfolios volition beryllium allocated to the caller Ministers who were sworn successful contiguous connected June 3.
Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari had fixed prominence to geographical, taste and sex considerations, successful the enlargement of the Council of Ministers successful the State.
The fig of women Ministers stands astatine 7 with 1 Cabinet Minister, Agnimitra Paul, 1 Minister of State (Independent Charge) Malati Rava Roy, and 1 Minister of State, Kalita Majhi, MLA from Ausgram, who was a house-help earlier the elections.
Ten from North Bengal
Ten MLAs from North Bengal person made it to the Council of Ministers, which includes Nisith Pramanik — appointed Minister for North Bengal Development — and Sankar Ghosh, who was sworn successful today. This is the highest fig of legislators from North Bengal that person ever been included successful the assembly of ministers successful West Bengal. Only 4 MLAs from Kolkata person made it to the council, which is adeparture from the erstwhile contented wherever legislators from Kolkata dominated the Cabinet.
The cardinal faces successful the Cabinet who were sworn successful connected Monday see Tapas Roy, Swapan Dasgupta, Sharadwat Mukherjee, Arjun Singh, and Jagannath Chatterjee. These are MLAs who person been elected for the archetypal clip connected a BJP ticket. Sankar Ghosh, Deepak Burman, Manoj Oraon, and Gouri Shankar Ghosh, who person been elected to the State Assembly for the 2nd clip were besides sworn successful arsenic Cabinet Ministers.
Prominent names from the ST assemblage see Manoj Oraon, Rajesh Mahato, Joyel Murmu, Amiya Kisku and Bishal Lama. The salient names from Scheduled Caste assemblage see Dipak Barman, Anandmoy Barman, Dudh Kumar Mondal, Hare Krishna Bera, Nadiar Chand Bauri, Dipankar Jana, and Kalita Majhi
Among the Ministers of State who were administered the oath were Joyel Murmu, Ashok Dinda, Anandamoy Burman, Kaushik Chowdhury, Gargi Das Ghosh, Bhaskar Bhattacharya, Dibakar Gharami, and Sumana Sarkar. BJP MLAs Santanu Pramanik, Purnima Chakraborty, and Umesh Rai were besides sworn successful arsenic Ministers of State.
Attempts person been made to springiness each portion and territory representation. Prior to this, six BJP MLAs including Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari and 5 others — Dilip Ghosh, Agnimitra Paul, Ashok Kirtania, Nisith Pramanik and Kshudiram Tudu were sworn successful arsenic Ministers astatine Kolkta Brigade Parade Grounds.
