Kolkata: Mamata Banerjee expanded her Cabinet on Monday with the induction of 43 ministers. This takes the total number of ministers in the ...
Kolkata: Mamata Banerjee expanded her Cabinet on Monday with the induction of 43 ministers. This takes the total number of ministers in the state Cabinet to 44 including the CM. The Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar administered the oath of office and secrecy to all the new ministers at a low-key ceremony at the Raj Bhavan at 10.45 am. On May 5 the TMC Supremo had taken oath as the Chief Minister for a third consecutive term.
A total of 17 new faces, including former cricketer Manoj Tiwary, are
among the 43 TMC leaders who were inducted into Banerjee's cabinet. This
includes 24 cabinet ministers, 10 Ministers of State (Independent Charge) and 9
Ministers of State.
The Cabinet ministers are: Subrata Mukherjee, Partha Chatterjee, Amit
Mitra, Sadhan Pande, Jyoti Priya Mallick, Bankim Chandra Hazra, Manas Ranjan
Bhunia, Saumen Kumar Mahapatra, Moloy Ghatak, Aroop Biswas, Ujjal Biswas, Arup
Roy, Rathin Ghosh, Firhad Hakim, Chandranath Sinha, Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay,
Bratya Basu, Pular Roy, Shashi Panja, Md. Ghulam Rabbani, Biplab Mitra, Javed
Ahmed Khan, Swapan Debnath and Siddiqullah Choudhary.
The 10 Ministers of State with Independent Charge are: Becharam Manna,
Subrata Saha, Humayun Kabir, Akhil Giri, Chandrima Bhattacharya, Ratna De Nag,
Sandhyarani Tudu, Bulu Chik Baraik, Sujit Bose and Indranil Sen. The 9
Ministers of State are: Dilip Mondal, Akhruzzaman, Seuli Saha, Srikant Mahato,
Yeasmin Sabina, Birbaha Hansda, Jyotsna Mandi, Adhikary Paresh Chandra and
Manoj Tiwari.
The swearing-in has been held at a time when the Governor has
just sanctioned the CBI prosecution of four people in the Narada sting
operation case, including two of the ministers who were sworn in - Subrata
Mukherjee and Firhad Hakim. The two others are Madan Mitra and Sovan
Chatterjee.
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