West Bengal Cabinet growth: 43 ministers, including 17 news faces, to take oath today – Full list
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will undertake an train to develop her Cabinet today. As many as 43 ministers will be a part of the Trinamool Congress authorities within the state. Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar will administer the oath of workplace and secrecy to all the brand new ministers at a low-key ceremony at Raj Bhavan.
Mamata Banerjee had on May 5 taken oath because the Chief Minister for a file third time period. She took the oath in Bengali because the twenty first CM and eighth particular person to maintain the workplace.
A complete of 17 new faces, including former cricketer Manoj Tiwary, will probably be among the many 43 TMC leaders who will probably be inducted into Banerjee’s cupboard. This contains 24 cupboard ministers, 10 Ministers of State (Independent Charge) and 9 Ministers of State.
The list of MLAs to be sworn in as cupboard ministers are: Subrata Mukherjee, Partha Chatterjee, Amit Mitra, Sadhan Pande, Jyoti Priya Mallick, Bankim Chandra Hazra, Manas Ranjan Bhunia, Saumen Kumar Mahapatra, Moloy Ghatak, Aroop Biswas, Ujjal Biswas, Arup Roy, Rathin Ghosh, Firhad Hakim, Chandranath Sinha, Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, Bratya Basu, Pular Roy, Shashi Panja, Md. Ghulam Rabbani, Biplab Mitra, Javed Ahmed Khan, Swapan Debnath and Siddiqullah Choudhary.
The 10 Ministers of State with Independent Charge are: Becharam Manna, Subrata Saha, Humayun Kabir, Akhil Giri, Chandrima Bhattacharya, Ratna De Nag, Sandhyarani Tudu, Bulu Chik Baraik, Sujit Bose and Indranil Sen. The 9 Ministers of State are: Dilip Mondal, Akhruzzaman, Seuli Saha, Srikant Mahato, Yeasmin Sabina, Birbaha Hansda, Jyotsna Mandi, Adhikary Paresh Chandra and Manoj Tiwari.
The West Bengal Legislative Assembly has 294 seats, however the elections had been held for 292 seats. Polling to the Jangipur and Samseehanj seats was deferred due to the demise of candidates. Going by the rule, the full variety of Ministers, including the Chief Minister, within the Council of Ministers in a State shall not exceed 15 per cent.
The Trinamool Congress emerged victorious within the meeting polls, pocketing 213 seats, securing 47 per cent of the full votes polled through the eight-phased election. The Bharatiya Janata Party is now the principal opposition celebration within the state, profitable 77 seats. The Congress-Left alliance failed to pocket even a single seat.
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