West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee Announces Cabinet Reshuffle for Wednesday

Mamata Banerjee also announced that the number of districts in the state will be increased from 23 to 30.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday, 1 August, announced that there will be a Cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday and there will be four to five new faces.

Speaking about the reshuffle, Banerjee said, "We don't have 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 is in jail so all their work has to be done. Not possible for me to handle alone."

This comes days after Partha Chatterjee, accused in West Bengal SSC recruitment scam, was suspended from the Trinamool Congress and sacked from the Mamata Banerjee Cabinet on 28 July.

Reacting to the announcement, Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar claimed that it was "just an eyewash."