Second Bhattacharjee ministry


Buddhadev Bhattacharya was sworn in as the chief minister of West Bengal in the sixth Left Front government along with other 47 ministers.[1] Members of the Left Front Ministry in the Indian state of West Bengal as in May 2006 were as follows:

Second Bhattacharjee ministry
10th Ministry of West Bengal
2001—2006
Date formed10 May 2001
Date dissolved8 May 2006
People and organisations
GovernorViren J. Shah Gopalkrishna Gandhi
Chief MinisterBuddhadeb Bhattacharjee
No. of ministers
Member party  Left Front
Status in legislatureMajority
199 / 294(68%)
Opposition party  All India Trinamool Congress
Opposition leaderPankaj Banerjee
History
Election(s)2001
Outgoing election2006
Legislature term(s)13th Assembly
PredecessorFirst Bhattacharjee ministry
SuccessorThird Bhattacharjee ministry

Cabinet ministers

  • Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee - Chief Minister; Home (Police), Information and Cultural Affairs, Science and Technology
  • Nirupam Sen - Industry, Public Undertakings & Industrial Reconstruction, Planning & Development
  • Dr Surjya Kanta Mishra - Health & Family welfare, Rural Development, Panchayat
  • Mohammed Amin - Labour
  • Asim Dasgupta - Finance
  • Subhas Chakraborty - Transport, Sports, Hooghly River Bridge Commissioners
  • Mohammed Salim - Minorities Development & Welfare, Self-employment Scheme for the Urban Unemployed, Youth Services, Technical Education
  • Kamal Guha - Agriculture
  • Biswanath Chowdhury - Social Welfare, Jails
  • Kiranmoy Nanda - Fisheries, Aquaculture, Aquatic Resources, Harbours
  • Nandagopal Bhattacharjee - Small Irrigation, Water Investigation Development
  • Prabodh Sinha - Parliamentary Affairs & Excise
  • Kalimuddin Shams - Food & Supplies
  • Amar Chaudhuri - Public Works
  • Gautam Deb - Housing & Public Health and Engineering
  • Kanti Biswas - School Education, Madrasah
  • Naren De - Cooperation & Consumer Affairs
  • Manabendra Mukherjee - Information Technology & Environment
  • Ashok Bhattacharya - Municipal Affairs, Urban Development, Town and Country Planning
  • Dinesh Dakua - Tourism
  • Sailen Sarkar - Food Processing and Horticulture
  • Satyasadhan Chakravarty - Higher Education
  • Amarendralal Roy - Irrigation and Waterways
  • Abdur Razzak Molla - Land and Land Reforms
  • Mrinal Banerjee - Power
  • Bansa Gopal Chowdhury - Cottage & Small Scale Industry
  • Nisith Adhikary - Law and Judicial Department
  • Upen Kisku - Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes Welfare
  • Anisur Rahman - Animal Resources Development
  • Jogesh Chandra Barman - Forests
  • Nemai Mal - Library Services
  • Nandarani Dal - Mass Education
  • Chhaya Ghosh - Agriculture Marketing
  • Hafiz Alam Sairani - Relief

Ministers of State

  • Pratim Chatterjee - Fire Services
  • Dhiren Sen - Land and Land Reforms, Panchayats and Rural Development
  • Susanta Ghosh - Labour, Employment Exchange, Employees’ State Insurance (ESI)
  • Dasrath Tirkey - Public Works
  • Maheswar Murmu - Pashchimanchal Development and Forests
  • Anju Kar - Municipal Affairs
  • Bilasibala Sahis - Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and OBC
  • Ganesh Chandra Mondal - Irrigation & Waterways
  • Srikumar Mukherjee - Civil Defence
  • Kanti Ganguly - Sunderbans Development Affairs
  • Pratyush Mukherjee - Health & Family Welfare
  • Narayan Biswas - Transport
  • Nayan Sarkar - Refugee Rehabilitation
  • Ibha Dey - School Education

See also

Notes

  1. I/C stands for independent charge. It means that a minister can hold portfolios independently in a junior rank.

References

  1. "48-member Left Front ministry takes oath in WB". rediff.com. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
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