The Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress, which roared again to energy for the third time following the hotly contested Assembly election in West Bengal, launched its checklist of ministers who be sworn-in at a ceremony within the Raj Bhavan on Monday. Banerjee, who took oath as chief minister final Wednesday, has submitted a checklist of 43 ministers — each cupboard and ministers of state — to the governor. Though the TMC has received with a thumping majority within the lately held meeting election, Banerjee herself misplaced from Nandigram and she or he too must win a bypoll.
As many as 17 MLAs, principally veterans like Subrata Mukherjee, Partha Chatterjee, Firhad Hakim, Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay Jyoti Priya Mallick, Moloy Ghatak, Aroop Biswas, Dr Shashi Panja and Javed Ahmed Khan, have been named as full-time ministers, whereas 19 have been made state ministers and one other 10 will likely be given impartial cost. Former finance minister Amit Mitra has additionally been named in Cabinet checklist although he didn’t contest the lately held election as a consequence of his in poor health well being. The TMC supremo needs Mitra again on the helm of the finance division and has plans to make him a member of the Assembly by means of a by-election, the senior chief of the occasion stated.
Among the 17 faces making an entry to the ministry is cricketer-turned-politician Manoj Tiwary, who grew to become a legislator from Shibpur in Howrah. Other new entrants to the council of ministers will embody former IPS officer Humayun Kabir and Siuli Saha. While Kabir will likely be amongst 10 individuals who will change into ministers of state (impartial cost), Tiwari and Saha will function within the checklist of 9 MLAs who will likely be sworn-in as ministers of state. Banerjee is additionally scheduled to carry the primary Cabinet assembly on Monday after the swearing-in ceremony, he stated.
Meanwhile, the identify of former transport minister Madan Mitra, an MLA from Kamarhati, didn’t determine within the checklist. Two different former ministers — Tapash Roy and Nirmal Majhi — have additionally been denied ministries. The checklist additionally didn’t have names of anybody from the glamour world, lots of whom received the election on a Trinamool Congress ticket.
In one other growth, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, on a request by the CBI, sanctioned the prosecution of Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee, Madan Mitra and Sovan Chatterjee, all of them ministers in the course of the time of the alleged fee of a crime that got here to gentle within the purported Narada sting tapes, an official stated on Sunday. “Honourable governor is the competent authority to accord sanction by way of regulation as he occurs to be the appointing authority for such ministers by way of Article 164 of the Constitution,” a statement issued by the officer on special duty (communication), Raj Bhavan, said. All the four men were ministers in Banerjee’s cabinet when the tapes were allegedly made in 2014. Hakim, Mukherjee and Mitra have been re-elected as TMC MLAs, while Chatterjee, who left the TMC to join the BJP, has severed links with both the camps.
(With PTI inputs)
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