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June 6, 2026
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday expanded his cabinet, with 35 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs taking oath as ministers. The swearing in ceremony was conducted at the Lok Bhavan in Kolkata and the oath was administered by Governor RN Ravi.
West Bengal can have a maximum of 44 ministers, including the chief minister, as per Article 164(1A) of the Constitution of India.
Among the 35 MLAs who were sworn in as ministers were Arjun Singh, Tapas Roy, Saradwat Mukherjee, Jagannath Chattopadhyay and Shankar Ghosh. Other than them, Swapan Dasgupta, Dudh Kumar Mondal, Deepak Burman, Manoj Oraon and Gouri Shankar Ghosh also took oath.
Besides, BJP MLAs Rajesh Mahata, Indranil Khan and Malati Rava Roy were sworn in as Minister of State (MoS) with independent charge in the government.
