Bengal Cabinet Expanded: CM Suvendu Retains Home, Swapan Dasgupta Gets Finance

June 10, 2026

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday allocated portfolios among his cabinet ministers, allocating the Finance Department to Swapan Dasgupta, Industry and Commerce to Tapas Roy, while keeping the key Home Ministry with himself.

Suvendu has also retained charge of key departments including Hill Affairs, Land and Land Reforms and Refugee Relief and Rehabilitation, Power, Information and Cultural Affairs, Personnel and Administrative Reforms, along with all departments not assigned to other ministers.

Agnimitra Paul, who earlier held the Women and Child Development and Social Welfare portfolio, has been handed the Urban Development and Municipal Affairs.

Complete West Bengal Cabinet portfolio list

Cabinet ministers

Minister	Portfolio
Nishith Pramanik	North Bengal Development; Water Resources Investigation and Development
Ashok Kirtania	Food and Supplies; Co-operation
Dilip Ghosh	Panchayats and Rural Development; Agricultural Marketing
Kshudiram Tudu	Tribal Development; Minority Affairs and Madrasa Education
Agnimitra Paul	Urban Development and Municipal Affairs
Dipak Barman	School Education; Housing; Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and Textiles
Tapas Roy	Industry, Commerce and Enterprises; Public Enterprises and Industrial Reconstruction; Non-Conventional and Renewable Energy Sources
Shankar Ghosh	Parliamentary Affairs; Tourism
Manoj Kumar Oraon	Forests; Environment
Arjun Singh	Labour; Transport
Gouri Sankar Ghosh	Backward Classes Welfare; Mass Education Extension and Library Services
Jagannath Chattopadhyay	Higher Education and Technical Education; Training and Skill Development
Swapan Dasgupta	Finance
Kalyan Chakraborti	Information Technology and Electronics; Science and Technology and Biotechnology; Food Processing Industries and Horticulture
Sharadwat Mukherjee	Health and Family Welfare
Arup Kumar Das	Irrigation and Waterways
Ajay Kumar Poddar	Public Health Engineering; Public Works Department
Dudh Kumar Mondal	Agriculture

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

Minister	Portfolio(s)
Malati Rava Roy	Women and Child Development and Social Welfare; Self Help Group and Self Employment; Programme Monitoring
Rajesh Mahata	Animal Resources Development; Fisheries
Indranil Khan	Youth Services and Sports; Consumer Affairs

Ministers of State

Minister	Portfolio(s)
Joyel Murmu	Tribal Development; Irrigation and Waterways
Hare Krishna Bera	Higher Education and Technical Education; Training and Skill Development
Anandamay Barman	Transport; Finance
Ashoke Dinda	Agricultural Marketing; Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and Textiles
Nadiar Chand Bouri	Public Works; Backward Classes Welfare
Bishal Lama	Home and Hill Affairs; Minority Affairs and Madrasah Education
Santanu Pramanik	Food and Supplies; Panchayats and Rural Development
Moumita Biswas Misra	Industry, Commerce and Enterprises; Science and Technology and Biotechnology
Umesh Rai	Parliamentary Affairs; Urban Development and Municipal Affairs
Purnima Chakraborty	Information and Cultural Affairs; Tourism
Koushik Chowdhury	School Education; Fire and Emergency Services
Bhaskar Bhattacharya	Public Health Engineering; Labour
Dibakar Gharami	Co-operation; Forests and Environment
Amiya Kisku	Food Processing Industries and Horticulture; Agriculture
Kalita Maji	Housing
Gargi Das Ghosh	Power; Non-Conventional and Renewable Energy Sources
Biraj Biswas	Law and Judicial; North Bengal Development
Dipankar Jana	Land and Land Reforms and Refugee Relief and Rehabilitation; Sundarban Affairs
Sumana Sarkar	Health and Family Welfare