India, June 10 -- All the 41 ministers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in West Bengal, including chief minister Suvendu Adhikari, were allocated their portfolios on Wednesday.

CM Adhikari will be the minister-in-charge of home and hill affairs, land and land reforms and refugee, relief and rehabilitation, power, information and cultural affairs, personnel and administrative reforms, and other departments not allotted to other ministers.

While Adhikari took oath as the chief minister along with five other cabinet ministers on May 9, another 35 ministers took oath on June 1. There are now 19 cabinet ministers, including Adhikari, three ministers of state with independent charge, and 19 ministers of state.

Swapan Dasgupta, ...