Mamata clips wings of BJP turncoat Babul Supriyo in West Bengal cabinet reshuffle
By Express News Service
KOLKATA: In a reshuffle within the West Bengal cabinet, the wings of Babul Supriyo, the previous BJP MP and Union minister who had defected to the TMC in 2021, had been clipped on Monday by relieving him from his put up as tourism minister.
Singer-turned-politician Supriyo can be within the state cabinet for 2 different departments—Information and Technology & Electronics and Non-conventional and Renewable Energy Sources, which he had been allotted after profitable from Ballygunge Assembly constituency two years in the past.
In the reshuffle, Indranil Sen was appointed as the brand new tourism minister.
The West Bengal Chief Minister made modifications to the portfolios of a number of ministries earlier than she left for Spain aiming to carry investments to Bengal.
Sources within the TMC stated Supriyo’s wings had been clipped owing to his bitter relationship with Sen. “The chief minister was not happy with it. Sen is one of her loyal lieutenants while Supriyo had launched a scathing attack on the CM both before the 2019 general elections and the Assembly polls in 2021 and decided to join after being axed from the Union cabinet,” stated a senior TMC chief.
Supriyo was the BJP MP from Asansol for 2 consecutive phrases since 2014 earlier than the TMC wrested the seat from the saffron camp within the by-election after he had defected to Mamata’s social gathering.
The reshuffle additionally noticed a rise in obligations for forest minister Jyotipriya Mallick, who additionally now oversees Industrial Reconstruction and Public Enterprises.
KOLKATA: In a reshuffle within the West Bengal cabinet, the wings of Babul Supriyo, the previous BJP MP and Union minister who had defected to the TMC in 2021, had been clipped on Monday by relieving him from his put up as tourism minister.
Singer-turned-politician Supriyo can be within the state cabinet for 2 different departments—Information and Technology & Electronics and Non-conventional and Renewable Energy Sources, which he had been allotted after profitable from Ballygunge Assembly constituency two years in the past.
In the reshuffle, Indranil Sen was appointed as the brand new tourism minister.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
The West Bengal Chief Minister made modifications to the portfolios of a number of ministries earlier than she left for Spain aiming to carry investments to Bengal.
Sources within the TMC stated Supriyo’s wings had been clipped owing to his bitter relationship with Sen. “The chief minister was not happy with it. Sen is one of her loyal lieutenants while Supriyo had launched a scathing attack on the CM both before the 2019 general elections and the Assembly polls in 2021 and decided to join after being axed from the Union cabinet,” stated a senior TMC chief.
Supriyo was the BJP MP from Asansol for 2 consecutive phrases since 2014 earlier than the TMC wrested the seat from the saffron camp within the by-election after he had defected to Mamata’s social gathering.
The reshuffle additionally noticed a rise in obligations for forest minister Jyotipriya Mallick, who additionally now oversees Industrial Reconstruction and Public Enterprises.
