Mamata Banerjee Retains Ministerial Core As 43 Take Oath Today
The ministers will take oath in the Raj Bhavan’s Throne Room at 10.45 am.
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Altogether 43 ministers, including 19 ministers of state, are likely to take oath, the source said.
One of them will be Amit Mitra, who was the finance minister under Banerjee in her two previous terms since 2011, but was not made a candidate in the recently concluded election due to his ill health.
West Bengal cabinet: Mamata Banerjee keeps Home and Health portfolios, Amit Mitra retains Finance
After as many as 43 Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders were sworn in as ministers in Mamata Banerjee s Cabinet on Monday. Photo: Twitter/@jdhankhar1
Updated: May 10, 2021, 05:32 PM IST
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will keep the portfolios of Home and Hill Affairs, Personnel and Administration, Health and Family Welfare, Land and Land Reforms and Refugee and Rehabilitation, Information and Cultural Affairs and North Bengal Development.
After as many as 43 Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders were sworn in as ministers in Mamata Banerjee s Cabinet on Monday at Raj Bhavan, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar issued a list of portfolios allotted to them.
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It will include 24 cabinet ministers and 19 ministers of state.
New Delhi: A week after the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) won a comfortable majority in West Bengal, the party s ministers will take oath at the Raj Bhawan in Kolkata today (May 10, 2021).
A total of 43 ministers will be sworn in including 24 cabinet ministers and 19 ministers of state.
Veteran leaders such as Subrata Mukherjee, Partha Chatterjee, Firhad Hakim, Jyoti Priya Mallick, Moloy Ghatak, Aroop Biswas, Dr Shashi Panja and Javed Ahmed Khan will be made cabinet ministers.
New faces in the council of ministers will have former West Bengal Ranji skipper Manoj Tiwary, IPS officer Humayun Kabir and Siuli Saha. Kabir will be among 10 persons who will become ministers of state (independent charge), and Tiwari along with Saha will take oath as ministers of state.
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In all, 24 Cabinet Ministers and 10 Ministers of State with independent charge and nine Ministers of State took the oath.
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In all, 24 Cabinet Ministers and 10 Ministers of State with independent charge and nine Ministers of State took the oath.
Forty-three legislators of the Trinamool Congress were on Monday sworn in to the West Bengal Council of Ministers at the Raj Bhavan. In all, 24 Cabinet Ministers and 10 Ministers of State with independent charge and nine Ministers of State took the oath.