Suvendu Adhikari Govt Expansion: Expansion of Subhendu Adhikari government, Kalita Manjhi, who washes utensils at home, also became minister.

By Samira Vishwas On Jun 1, 2026

Kolkata. The Subhendu Adhikari government of West Bengal was expanded on Monday. West Bengal Governor RN Ravi administered the oath of office and secrecy to 35 new ministers at Lok Bhavan in Kolkata. After this expansion, there are 13 cabinet ministers, 19 ministers of state and 3 ministers with independent charge in the Shubhendu Adhikari government. Kalita Manjhi is also among those who became ministers. Before becoming MLA, Kalita Manjhi used to wash utensils in other people’s houses. BJP had given him ticket from Ausgram assembly seat. Now Kalita has been made Minister of State in the Subhendu Adhikari government.

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Swapan Dasgupta, who came from journalist to politics, has been made cabinet minister in the Subhendu Adhikari government. Apart from them, Deepak Burman, Tapas Roy, Shankar Ghosh, Manoj Kumar Oraon, Arjun Singh, Gauri Shankar Ghosh, Jagannath Chattopadhyay were also sworn in as cabinet ministers. At the same time, Malti Rava Roy, Rajesh Mahato and Dr. Indranil Khan have been made ministers of state with independent charge. All of them will be entrusted with important responsibilities. Indranil Khan is a cancer specialist by profession. He has been the President of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha in West Bengal.

Apart from Kalita Manjhi in the Subhendu Adhikari government, Joel Murmu, Hare Krishna Bera, Anandmoy Barman, former cricketer Ashok Dinda, Nadiyar Chandra Bauri, Vishal Lama, Shantanu Pramanik, Moumita Vishwas Mishra, Umesh Rai, Purnima Chakraborty, Kaushik Choudhary, Bhaskar Bhattacharya, Dibakar Gharami, Amiya Kisku, Gargi Das Ghosh, Biraj Biswas, Dipankar Jana and Sumana Sarkar were made ministers of state. Is. BJP ended 15 years of TMC rule by winning 208 seats in West Bengal. Mamata Banerjee herself had lost to Shubhendu Adhikari on Bhawanipur seat. Earlier, Shubhendu Adhikari had also defeated Mamata Banerjee from Nandigram seat in 2021.