West Bengal (The Stellar News): On Monday the West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee announced that there will be a Cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday. This comes in the wake of former Minister Partha Chatterjee who was arrested by Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the SSC recruitment case.
Mamata Banerjee said, “We will do a reshuffle on Wednesday in which there will be a few 4-5 new faces”.
Chatterjee was minister in-charge of the Department of Industry, Commerce, and Enterprises, IT, and Electronics, Parliamentary affairs and Public enterprises, and Industrial reconstruction.
The CM took charge of the departments on Thursday after his arrest. She now holds charge of 11 departments, the four of them were held by Partha Chatterjee.
“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 of their work has to be done. It’s not possible for me to handle this alone”. Bengal CM added.
The chief minister also spoke of the seven new districts in Bengal, which has increased the total number of districts from 23 to 30. “The seven new districts include – Sunderban, Ichhemati, Ranaghat, Bishnupur, Jangipur, Behrampur and one more district will be named Basirhat.” she said.
Meanwhile, a senior Cabinet member said that young faces with clean images will be inducted after the reshuffle. “As of the ministers who will be dropped and sent for organisational works, you can expect a major surprise, with the inclusion of a couple of heavyweight faces in the list”, he added.
He also said that with an aim to clean up the images of the Trinamool Congress, which has been tainted by the arrest of Partha Chatterjee and huge treasure recovery by the ED investigators, the party has already started the process of reshuffling of district leaderships.
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