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Former BJP MP Babul Supriyo Gets Cabinet Seat After Mamata Reshuffles Cabinet

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It was Mamtaโ€™s biggest cabinet expansion since coming to power in 2011. The ministers took oath this afternoon, days after the arrest of the Chief Ministerโ€™s closest aide Partha Chatterjee in an alleged money laundering case.

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, reshuffled her cabinet days after suspending arrested ex-minister Partha Chatterjee. Among the five newcomers is Babul Supriyo a former Union minister of the BJP who joined the Trinamool Congress last year and has been rewarded with a cabinet berth. Along with Babul Supriyo, Snehashish Chakraborty, Partha Bhowmik, Udayan Guha and Pradip Majumder will be allotted seats in the cabinet.

It was Mamtaโ€™s biggest cabinet expansion since coming to power in 2011. The ministers took oath this afternoon, days after the arrest of the Chief Ministerโ€™s closest aide Partha Chatterjee in an alleged money laundering case. A Mountain of cash was recovered from the two properties belonging to his aide, Arpita Mukherjee, making the government the target of much criticism.

The ministers took oath on Wednesday. Snehashish Chakraborty is the partyโ€™s state spokesperson and handles the party unit in the Hooghly district. Partha Bhowmik is a three-term MLA from the Naihati Assembly seat and Udayan Guha was a Forward Bloc leader, who joined the Trinamool in 2016.

The four junior ministers appointed include Birbaha Hansda, Biplab Roy Chowdhury, Tajmul Hossain, and Satyajit Burman. Birbaha Hansda, a tribal leader, and Biplab Roy Chowdhury will have independent charges.

Partha Chatterjee was sacked of ministerial duties and all party posts after his arrest were in charge of five key departments including industry, commerce and enterprises, and parliamentary affairs.

While announcing the revamp on Tuesday, the CM said the number of districts in the state has also increased from 23 to 30, generating a bigger workload.

Ms. Banerjee said โ€œWe lost ministers Subrata Mukherjee and Sadhan Pande. Partha is in jail so all their work has to be done. Not possible for me to handle alone.โ€

On Monday, the TMC supremo carried out a major overhaul within the party, changing the leadership of 16 of the 35 organizational districts. Several โ€œnon-performersโ€ were axed, and some were relieved of organizational duties.

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Personal Data Protection Bill 2019 Withdrawn After 81 Amendments

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Govt withdraws personal data bill
The Centre told the members of the Joint Parliamentary Committee that a new Bill that fits into the comprehensive legal framework is being worked on.

Mumbai:  The Centre on August 3 withdrew the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, and will be introducing a new Bill.

The Personal Data Protection Act, which aimed to regulate how an individualโ€™s data can be used by businesses and the government, was repealed after a joint parliamentary committee proposed 81 amendments.  According to government sources, a report of the Joint Parliamentary Committee, work is underway on a comprehensive legal framework that paves the way for a new bill.

The bill was sent to the jury in 2019 after facing vehement protests from the opposition Congress and the TMC, among others, which alleged that the data privacy law violated the fundamental rights of citizens.
Opposition parties have said the law gives the government broad powers to access peopleโ€™s personal data in unclear circumstances, citing national security and other reasons.

The bill defined personal data as information that could help in the identification of an individual and has characteristics, traits and other features of a personโ€™s identity.

Opposition parties said the law would make it easier for the government to spy on citizens, while the government said penalties for unauthorized use of the data were sufficient to prevent such cases.

The law also reportedly required major social media platforms to offer an identity verification option, a potentially previous effort to stem the spread of โ€œfake newsโ€.

The requirement would likely raise a number of technical and political issues for businesses of social media platforms such as Facebook and its WhatsApp and Instagram, Twitter units, all of which have millions of users in India.

The Personal Data Protection Act has been eagerly awaited by major technology companies and industry stakeholders as it could change the way all major internet companies process, store and transfer Indian consumer data.

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