Four fishermen, who had travelled from Kakdwip in South 24-Parganas to Beypore in Kerala for better income, remain untraced since May 5 after their trawler went missing in the Arabian Sea and their family members now hope the Bengal government will help them get information about their kin.
A family member of one of the missing fishermen said among the four were three brothers who had travelled 2,340km to work in Kerala for a better living.
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He added the last time the four had spoken to their family members was on May 5, the day they ventured into the Arabian Sea for fishing on board trawler Ajmer Shah.
In a major organisational reshuffle, the TMC appointed MP Abhishek Banerjee, who is also Mamata Banerjee's nephew, as the party's national general secretary. - Issue Date: Jun 21, 2021
UPDATED: May 14, 2021 17:13 IST
Mamata Banerjee and her cabinet members with governor Jagdeep Dhankhar at the swearing-in ceremony; Photo by Debajyoti Chakraborty
One of the dominant themes of Mamata Banerjee’s assembly election campaign was the idea of an inclusive West Bengal that had something to offer to all its citizens, cutting across religion, caste, gender and social status. Public endorsement of it came as her party, the Trinamool Congress (TMC), won the election with a handsome 213 of the total 294 seats. ‘Inclusive Bengal’ now finds reflection in Mamata’s 43-member cabinet that took the oath of office on May 10. The team consists of nine women, seven Muslims, eight SC/ST MLAs and professionals from diverse fields an actor, a cricketer, a theatre personality, a singer and two doctors. In all, there are 15 new faces.
KOLKATA: The third cabinet with Mamata Banerjee as chief minister is set to be sworn in on Monday, with its 43 members comprising an almost equal mix of the seasoned and the new. While 17 senior ministers who had been in both the earlier cabinets have all found a place the third time around, 16 are set to be first-time ministers.
Amit Mitra, who did not contest the Bengal polls, returns to the state cabinet. Manas Bhunia, Pulak Ray, Rathin Ghosh and Biplab Mitra also step into the cabinet Ray, Ghosh and Mitra for the first time after leading the party fightbacks in West Midnapore, Howrah and South Dinajpur. Cricketer Manoj Tiwari also gets a place in the new cabinet, as does former IPS officer Humayun Kabir.
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