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.
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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 TMC 3.0, Mamata retains home, health and hill affairs; Amit Mitra back as finance minister
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In TMC 3.0, Mamata retains home, health and hill affairs; Amit Mitra back as finance ministerET Bureau
Last Updated: May 10, 2021, 07:44 PM IST
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Banerjee will also be in charge of land and land reforms, information and cultural affairs and development of North Bengal –– the only region the party lost to the BJP. She has picked Sabina Yasmin, a young MLA from Malda, to assist her as an MoS to look after the affairs of North Bengal.
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Party sources said the portfolios were decided at the first cabinet meeting of the government held at the state secretariat.