Mamata keeps Home and Health portfolios, Suvendu Adhikari elected Leader of Opposition

The Chief Minister will also be in charge of Land and Land Reforms, Information and Cultural Affairs and North Bengal Development departments.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has kept the crucial departments of Home and Health Department in the allocation of portfolios after 43 Ministers were sworn in to the State's Council of Ministers earlier on Monday. Along with these two crucial portfolios, Ms. Banerjee will also be in charge of Land and Land Reforms, Information and Cultural Affairs and North Bengal Development departments. In another significant development Suvendu Adhikari, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA from Nandigram was elected Leader of Opposition in the Assembly. The announcement was made by Union Minister for Law and Justice Ravi Shankar Prasad at a meeting of the BJP MLAs. Amit Mitra has been allocated Finance Department and Partha Chatterjee will be allocated Industry and Commerce Department. Rathin Ghosh will be new Minister of Food and Supplies Department and Gholam Rabanni Minority Affairs and Madrasah Education. Senior Minister Subrata Mukherjee will be in charge of Panchayat and Rural Development department. Bratya Basu will be in charge School and Higher Education and Firhad Hakim will be in charge of Transport and Housing Department. Sovandeb Chattopadhyay has been appointed Minister of Agriculture while Bankim Chandra Hazra has been appointed Minister for Sunderban Affairs.