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Suvendu keeps home, Swapan gets finance portfolio in Bengal
Hindustan Times Jaipur
|June 11, 2026
All 41 ministers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in West Bengal were allocated their portfolios on Wednesday, with chief minister and minister-in-charge Suvendu Adhikari retaining the crucial home department along with law and judicial affairs, land and land reforms, power, information and cultural affairs, refugee relief and rehabilitation, personnel and administrative reforms, and hill affairs.
While Adhikari took oath as the chief minister along with five other cabinet ministers on May 9, another 35 ministers took oath on June 1. There are now 19 cabinet ministers, including Adhikari, three independent ministers of state and 19 ministers of state.
Former Rajya Sabha MP Swapan Dasgupta, who won the Rashbehari seat, was given the finance department. Bidhannagar MLA Sharadwat Mukherjee, an oncologist, was made the health minster.
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