7 new districts to be carved out; cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday: West Bengal CM Banerjee

On Monday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced about her Cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday wherein 4-5 new faces will be induced as well as took decision to carve out seven new districts out of the existing 23 districts.

According to the government, the seven new districts are Sunderban, Ichhamati, Ranaghat, Bishnupur, Jangipur, Behrampur and Basirhat.

• Reacting to this, BJP's Amit Malviya said, "Mamata Banerjee's decision to create seven new districts and induct new faces is an attempt to divert attention from the SSC Scam. She must explain from where a debt-trapped West Bengal Government gets money to run new districts. With Paresh Adhikari still in her cabinet, new faces won't wash taint."

Paresh Adhikari is the state Education Minister. His house was also raided by Enforcement Directorate (ED) along with arrested minister Partha Chatterjee's in the SSC recruitment scam.

CM Banerjee now holds charge of 11 departments, including the four held by Partha Chatterjee that she took took charge of after his arrest on Thursday.

"We don't have a plan to dissolve the whole ministry and form a new one. Yes, there will be a reshuffle. We lost ministers Subrata Mukherjee, Sadhan Pande. Partha da is in jail so all their work has to be done. Not possible for me to handle alone," added the West Bengal CM.