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West Bengal Cabinet To Get ‘4-5 New Faces’, Reshuffle

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will reshuffle the cabinet and four to five new faces are set to join her cabinet on Wednesday.

“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 and Sadhan Pande. Partha is in jail so all their work has to be done. Not possible for me to handle alone,” CM Mamata said earlier, as quoted by news agency ANI.

Sources in the ruling Trinamool Congress said this is likely to be one of the biggest reshuffles since the party came to power in 2011.

The cabinet reshuffle comes at a time when the party is under political opposition over the arrest of senior minister Partha Chatterjee by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the school job scam after the Trinamool returned to power in the state for the third time last year.

‘Tiranga Bike Rally’ For MPs Of All PartiesThe Culture Ministry is going to organise a ‘Tiranga Bike Rally’ from the Red Fort to Parliament on Wednesday morning for the MPs. Union Minister Prahlad Joshi has appealed to the MPs of all political parties to participate in this rally.

Addressing reporters after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Parliamentary Party meeting, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Joshi said that the event was being organised by the Ministry of Culture and not by the BJP. He urged the MPs of all parties to participate in the program and asked them to reach the Red Fort at 8.30 am.