Mamata reshuffles cabinet ahead of foreign visit

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has made some changes in her Cabinet while shifting Babul Supriyo from the tourism department to information technology & electronics and the department of non-conventional and renewable energy. The Cabinet reshuffle has come ahead of her 12-day foreign tour to Dubai and Spain to attract foreign investment to the state. Replacing Supriyo, another singer-politician Indranil Sen, who was the minister of state for technical education, training, and skill development department, will now head the tourism department. State forest minister Jyotipriya Mallick was given the additional charge of industrial reconstruction and department of public enterprise. Meanwhile, Pradip Mazumdar, state panchayat minister was given additional responsibility for the cooperative department. Another minister Arup Roy was assigned department of food processing and horticulture Department.