A day after dropping three ministers, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday reshuffled her Cabinet. Mamata, who holds six portfolios, has taken a seventh — Tribal Development. The portfolio was previously held by James Kujur, who was among the ministers dropped on Tuesday.
According to a state government notification, state Panchayat Minister Subrata Mukherjee has retained the Panchayat and Rural Development portfolio and acquired Water Resources Investigation and Development. However, he lost the Public Health Engineering portfolio to state Labour, Law and Judicial Affairs Minister Moloy Ghatak.