West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is all set to  reshuffle of her cabinet on August 3, which Trinamool Congress sources said, is likely to be one of the biggest since the party came to power in the state in 2011.

The cabinet reshuffle comes amid the party facing the heat over the arrest of senior minister Partha Chatterjee by ED over the school jobs scam. Banerjee had on Monday carried out a major overhaul in her party and announced that a cabinet reshuffle will take place on Wednesday.

She had said that 4-5 new faces would be inducted into the new cabinet, while a similar number of members of the present cabinet would be utilised for party work.  Some portfolios might also be considered among the existing cabinet ministers. "In the last 11 years, there have been very few instances of a cabinet reshuffle, and those too were minor ones. This time though, the situation is different. "

Never before have been plans to induct 4-5 new faces and drop a similar number from the cabinet. So, this is likely to be one of the biggest reshuffles since our party came to power in the state," a senior TMC MLA said. Babul Supriyo, Tapas Ray, Partha Bhowmick, Snehasis Chakraborty and Udayan Guha are some of the names that are doing the rounds for induction into the cabinet, TMC sources said.

Supriyo, a former Union minister and BJP MP who  reportedly quit the saffron party and joined the TMC after being dropped from the Union cabinet last year, is presently a TMC MLA from Ballygunge assembly constituency in Kolkata. The TMC underwent a major organisational overhaul on Monday as the leadership of 16 out of the 35 organisational districts were changed. The imprint of Abhishek Banerjee was evident in the reshuffle in which several "non-performers" were axed, and some were relieved of organisational duties, paving their way for ministerial berths.

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