{"id":3647,"date":"2018-12-20T13:41:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T08:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=3647"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:12:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:42:49","slug":"four-new-ministers-in-mamata-banerjees-cabinet-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/four-new-ministers-in-mamata-banerjees-cabinet-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Four new ministers in Mamata Banerjee\u2019s cabinet today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four new Trinamool Congress lawmakers \u2013 Sujit Basu, Tapas Roy, Nirmal Maji and Ratna Kar Ghosh \u2013 took oath as ministers in the Mamata Banerjee cabinet on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The number of ministers had gone down to 40 due to the resignation of four ministers \u2013 including former Mayor and minister Sovon Chatterjee. The 44-member cabinet was thus short by four ministers. And Thursday\u2019s addition was primarily to fill this gap.<\/p>\n<p>However, a major reshuffling is also being worked out by Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee. Some ministers may be given bigger responsibilities in the coming days, while some others may have to give up the responsibility of a department or two, sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four new Trinamool Congress lawmakers \u2013 Sujit Basu, Tapas Roy, Nirmal Maji and Ratna Kar Ghosh \u2013 took oath as ministers in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":3648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-bengal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}