As many as 35 MLAs took oath as Ministers on Monday (June 1, 2026) as part of an expansion of the Suvendu Adhikari-led cabinet in West Bengal, taking the strength of the Council of Ministers to 40. While 13 MLAs took oath as Cabinet ministers, 3 as MoS (Independent Charge) and 19 as MoS. Cabinet Ministers: 1) Deepak Barman 2) Tapas Roy 3) Dr Shankar Ghosh 4) Manoj Kumar Oraon 5) Arjun Singh 6) Gouri Shankar Ghosh 7) Swapan Dasgupta 8) Jagnnatha Chattopadhyay 9) Kalyan Chakraborty 10) Ajay Poddar 11) Saradwat Mukherjee 12) Dudh Kumar Mondal 13) Anup Kumar Das Minister of State (Independent Charge): 2) Malati Rava Roy 3) Rajesh Mahato Minister of State: 1) Joel Murmu 2) Hare Krishna Bera 3) Anandamay Barman 4) Ashok Dinda 5) Nadiar Chand Bauri 6) Vishal Lama 7) Shantanu Pramanik 8) Moumita Biswas Mishra 9) Umesh Ray 10) Purnima Chakravarty 11) Kaushik Chowdhury 12) Bhaskar Bhattacharya 13) Dibakar Gharami 14) Amiya Kisku 15) Kalita Majhi 16) Gargi Das Ghosh 17) Biraj Biswas 18)Dipankar Jana 19) Sumana Sarkar Post navigation Cuttack Fish Market Fire: କଟକର ମାଛ ମାର୍କେଟରେ ଅଗ୍ନିକାଣ୍ଡ Centre appoints 5 New Judges to SC; strength rises to 37
