Stoking Fresh Speculations, 4 Bengal Ministers Skip Mamata's Cabinet Meet After Suvendu Moves to BJP
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Days after former Cabinet Minister Suvendu Adhikari joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), four ministers of the West Bengal government were absent from a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the State Secretariat on Tuesday. Adhikari joined the BJP at a rally held by Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the state, sparking speculations about rising dissent in the Trinamool Congress (TMC).
Two of the minister absent from the Tuesday meet -- Tourism Minister Gautam Deb and Minister for North Bengal Development Rabindranath Ghosh -- belonged to north Bengal. However, the reasons for their absence is seemed genuine as they had not been attending Cabinet meetings since the Covid-19 outbreak.