Second Bhattacharjee ministry
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Second Bhattacharjee ministry | |
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| 10th Ministry of West Bengal | |
| 2001—2006 | |
| Date formed | 10 May 2001 |
| Date dissolved | 8 May 2006 |
| People and organisations | |
| Governor | Viren J. Shah Gopalkrishna Gandhi |
| Chief Minister | Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee |
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| Member party | Left Front |
| Status in legislature | Majority 199 / 294 (68%) |
| Opposition party | All India Trinamool Congress |
| Opposition leader | Pankaj Banerjee |
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| Election(s) | 2001 |
| Outgoing election | 2006 |
| Legislature term(s) | 13th Assembly |
| Predecessor | First Bhattacharjee ministry |
| Successor | Third Bhattacharjee ministry |
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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:
Cabinet ministers[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^ I/C stands for independent charge. It means that a minister can hold portfolios independently in a junior rank.
References[edit]
- ^ "48-member Left Front ministry takes oath in WB". rediff.com. Retrieved 10 January 2022.