New Delhi: Every week after the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) received a cushty majority in West Bengal, the celebration’s 43 ministers will take oath on the Raj Bhawan in Kolkata today (May 10, 2021).
A complete of 43 ministers will likely be sworn in including 24 cupboard ministers and 19 ministers of state.
Veteran leaders comparable to Subrata Mukherjee, Partha Chatterjee, Firhad Hakim, Jyoti Priya Mallick, Moloy Ghatak, Aroop Biswas, Dr Shashi Panja and Javed Ahmed Khan will likely be made cupboard ministers.
New faces within the council of ministers may have former West Bengal Ranji skipper Manoj Tiwary, IPS officer Humayun Kabir and Siuli Saha. Kabir will likely be amongst 10 individuals who will turn into ministers of state (unbiased cost), and Tiwari together with Saha will take oath as ministers of state.
Mamata Banerjee, who took oath because the West Bengal Chief Minister for the third time on May 5, can also be doubtless to maintain the primary Cabinet assembly today after the swearing-in ceremony.
The TMC received 213 seats within the simply concluded state meeting elections, whereas the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) garnered 77 seats within the 294-seat state meeting.
Earlier on Sunday, the Governor of West Bengal Jagdeep Dhankhar sanctioned the prosecution of 4 TMC leaders — all of them ministers in the course of the time of the alleged fee of a criminal offense that got here to mild within the purported Narada sting tapes.
As per a Raj Bhavan official the choice to accord the sanctions towards Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee, Madan Mitra and Sovan Chatterjee was taken after a request was filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
The Narada sting tapes which have been made public earlier than the West Bengal 2016 meeting elections claimed to have been shot in 2014. In the video, ministers, MPs and MLAs have been allegedly seen receiving cash from representatives of a fictitious firm in lieu of promised favours.
(With inputs from companies)
