Days after senior Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee and his close aide Arpita Chatterjee were arrested and crores of rupees were recovered from her flat causing a loss of face for the State Government Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday inducted nine new faces including former Union Minister Babul Supriyo in the State Cabinet besides reshuffling some of the ministries.
The new ministers taken in a re Supriyo who has been given the Information Technology and Tourism portfolio, Partha Bhowmick, Udayan Guha, Snehashis Chakrabarty, Pradip Mazumder, Tajmul Hossain, Satyajit Barman, Birbaha Hansda and Biplab Roy Chowdhury.
Apart from taking in new ministers the Chief Minister effected a reshuffle in some of the departments bringing in Dr Shashi Panja as the Minister in charge of Industries. Similarly Sobhandeb Chatterjee was made the Parliamentary Affairs Minister. Both these ministries and the one given to Supriyo were held by Partha Chatterjee.
The Chief Minister had earlier said that she had to reshuffle the Cabinet as “I cannot do everything. We have to divide the work … senior leader Subrata Mukherjee and Sadhan Pande have passed away and Patha Chatterjee is in jail.”