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On Ist June, 13 new Cabinet Ministers, 3 Ministers of State (Independent Charge), and 19 Ministers of State took oath.<\/p>\n<p>Prominent faces among the new inductees include senior BJP leader and veteran journalist Swapan Dasgupta, Arjun Singh, Manoj Oraon, and Jagannath Chattopadhyay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>List of new Cabinet Ministers inducted<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; Swapan Dasgupta<br \/>\n&#8211; Arjun Singh<br \/>\n&#8211; Manoj Oraon<br \/>\n&#8211; Jagannath Chattopadhyay<br \/>\n&#8211; Tapash Roy<br \/>\n&#8211; Dipak Burman<br \/>\n&#8211; Shankar Ghosh<br \/>\n&#8211; Kalyan Chakraborty<br \/>\n&#8211; Arup Kumar Das<br \/>\n&#8211; Ajay Kumar Poddar<br \/>\n&#8211; Saradwat Mukhopadhyay<br \/>\n&#8211; Dudh Kumar Mondol<br \/>\n&#8211; Gouri Shankar Ghosh<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ministers of State (Independent Charge)<\/strong>:<br \/>\n&#8211; Malati Rava Roy<br \/>\n&#8211; Indranil Khan<br \/>\n&#8211; Rajesh Mahato<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ministers of State (MoS)<\/strong>:<br \/>\n&#8211; Ashok Dinda<br \/>\n&#8211; Umesh Roy<br \/>\n&#8211; Koushik Chowdhury<br \/>\n&#8211; Kalita Maji<br \/>\n&#8211; Moumita Biswas Misra<br \/>\n&#8211; Gargi Ghosh Das<br \/>\n&#8211; Dipankar Jana<br \/>\n&#8211; Purnima Chakraborty<br \/>\n&#8211; Bishal Lama<br \/>\n&#8211; Harikrishna Bera<br \/>\n&#8211; Anandamoy Burman<br \/>\n&#8211; Shantanu Pramanik<br \/>\n&#8211; Biraj Biswas<br \/>\n&#8211; Amiya Kisku<br \/>\n&#8211; Juyel Murmu<br \/>\n&#8211; Bhaskar Bhattacharya<br \/>\n&#8211; Dibakar Gharami<br \/>\n&#8211; Sumana Sarkar<br \/>\n&#8211; Noder Chand Bauri<\/p>\n<p>Portfolio allocation for the newly inducted ministers is expected to be announced on Wednesday. On May 9, Suvendu Adhikari and five other MLAs were sworn in, with the Chief Minister retaining key departments including Home, Hill Affairs, Health, Law, and Finance. Other senior leaders like Dilip Ghosh, Agnimitra Paul, Nisith Pramanik, Ashok Kirtania, and Kshudiram Tudu were also assigned important portfolios earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Shri Samik Bhattacharya MP and President of Bharatiya Janata Party West Bengal, Smt. Agnimitra Paul President of Women&#8217;s wing Bharatiya Janata Party West Bengal and veteran BJP leaders were present at the oath taking ceremony. <\/p>\n<p>The expansion is being seen as a move to consolidate the BJP government\u2019s administrative machinery and accelerate development initiatives across the state. 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