West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday announced that there will be a Cabinet reshuffle in the state on Wednesday, adding that, there will be 4-5 new faces.
"We will do a reshuffle on Wednesday. There will be 4-5 new faces," said Mamata.
The development comes after former state education minister Partha Chatterjee was arrested by Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the SSC recruitment scam case.
Chatterjee was minister-in-charge of the departments of industry, commerce and enterprises, IT and electronics, parliamentary affairs and public enterprises, and industrial reconstruction.
Following his arrest, CM Banerjee took charge of four of Partha Chatterjee’s department, besides 11 others which she already is in charge of.
"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, Sadhan Pande. Partha da is in jail so all their work has to be done. Not possible for me to handle alone," added Bengal CM.
Further, the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) government in West Bengal also decided to carve out carve out seven new districts out of the existing 23 districts by delimitation of their boundaries for better administration and development of the areas.
The seven new districts are Sunderban, Ichhamati, Ranaghat, Bishnupur, Jangipur, Behrampur and Basirhat.
"Earlier there were 23 districts in Bengal now it has been increased to 30. The 7 new districts include - Sunderban, Ichhemati, Ranaghat, Bishnupur, Jangipur, Behrampur and one more district will be named in Basirhat," said West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee.
