Thirty-five BJP legislators were sworn in as ministers on Monday in West Bengal (an eastern Indian state long governed by the left and then the Trinamool Congress party), bringing the cabinet of Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari to a total of 41 members. Governor R.N. Ravi administered the oaths at Lok Bhavan in Kolkata, inducting ministers across cabinet, minister of state, and independent-charge portfolios — including senior figures such as Swapan Dasgupta, Tapas Roy, and Arjun Singh. The expansion follows the BJP's landslide victory in the state assembly elections and marks the near-completion of what is the party's first-ever cabinet in West Bengal, three seats short of the constitutional maximum of 44.