Suspense continues over West Bengal Cabinet expansion

Key points

• Kolkata Almost ten days after the first Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government was sworn in in West Bengal, suspense continues over the allocation of portfolios of different departments.
• West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari was sworn in along with five Ministers on May 9 at Brigade Parade Ground after the BJP won 207 seats in the 294-member Assembly, reducing the Trinamool Congress to 80 seats.
• There are 54 departments in the West Bengal government, and Mr.
• Adhikari currently holds charge of 42 of them, including Home, Finance, Industries, School, Higher Education and Health.
• At the first Cabinet meeting of the BJP government, 12 departments were allocated to the five Ministers who were sworn in alongside the Chief Minister.