Third Bhattacharjee ministry
10th Ministry of West Bengal
2006—2011
Date formed18 May 2006
Date dissolved13 May 2011
People and organisations
GovernorViren J. Shah Gopalkrishna Gandhi Devanand Konwar (additional charge)
M. K. Narayanan
Chief MinisterBuddhadeb Bhattacharjee
No. of ministers
Member party  Left Front
Status in legislatureMajority
235 / 294(80%)
Opposition party  All India Trinamool Congress
Opposition leaderPartha Chatterjee
History
Election(s)2006
Outgoing election2011
Legislature term(s)14th Assembly
PredecessorSecond Bhattacharjee ministry
SuccessorFirst Banerjee ministry


Members of the Left Front Ministry in the Indian state of West Bengal as in May 2006 were as follows:[1]

Cabinet ministers

  • Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee - Chief minister, Home, Home (P & R), Information & Cultural Affairs, Science & Technology, Minorities development, Darjeeling, Food processing, Horticulture, Development & Planning
  • Nirupam Sen - Commerce & Industries, Public Undertakings, Industrial Reconstruction
  • Dr Surjya Kanta Mishra - Health & Family Welfare, Panchayats & Rural Development, Bio-technology, ESI
  • Gautam Deb - Housing, Public Health Engineering
  • Dr Asim Dasgupta - Finance, Excise
  • Subhas Chakraborty - Transport, Youth Services, Sports
  • Naren De - Agriculture, Consumer Affairs
  • Kshiti Goswami – PWD
  • Nandagopal Bhattacharjee - Minor Irrigation, Water Investigation & Development
  • Kiranmoy Nanda - Fisheries, Aqua-culture, Harbours
  • Pratim Chatterjee - Fire services, Emergency Services
  • Partha De - School Education Department
  • Manab Mukherjee - Cottage & Small Scale, Tourism
  • Rekha Goswami - Self-help Group, Self-employment
  • Ashok Bhattacharya - Municipal Affairs, Urban Development, North Bengal Development and Hill affairs, Town & Country planning
  • Abdur Razzak Molla - Land & Land Reforms
  • Sailen Sarkar - Parliamentary Affairs
  • Mrinal Banerjee - Power, labour
  • Biswanath Chowdhury - Jail, Child & Women Development, Social Welfare
  • Rabindra Ghosh - Co-operation
  • Jogesh Barman - Backward Classes Welfare
  • Anisur Rahaman - Animal Resources Development
  • Dr Debesh Das - Information Technology
  • Prof. Sudarshan Roy Choudhury - Higher Education
  • Ananta Roy Barman – Forests
  • Paresh Chandra Adhikari - Food and Supplies Department
  • Robilal Moitra - Judicial and Law Department
  • Chakradhar Meikap - Technical Education
  • Subhas Naskar - Irrigation, Waterways
  • Kanti Ganguly - Sunderbans Development Affairs
  • Susanta Ghosh - Paschimanchal Unnayan Affairs
  • Mohanta Chatterjee – Environment
  • Dr Mortoza Hossein - Relief, Agricultural Marketing

Ministers of State

  • Deblina Hembram - MOS Backward Classes Welfare
  • Manohar Tirkey - MOS PWD
  • Srikumar Mukherjee - MOS Home, Civil Defence
  • Bilashibala Sahis - MOS Forests
  • Narayan Biswas - MOS Cottage & Small Scale Industries
  • Abdus Sattar - MOS Minorities Development, Welfare, Madrasah
  • Bankim Chandra Ghosh - MOS Panchayat & Rural Development
  • Anwarul Haque - MOS Public Health engineering
  • Binay Krishna Biswas - MOS Refugee relief & Rehabilitation
  • Tapan Roy - MOS Mass Education Extension, Library
  • Anadi Kumar Sahu - MOS Labour

Notes

  1. I/C stands for independent charge. It means that a minister can hold portfolios independently in a junior rank.

References

  1. "Bengal Left Front Ministry". People’s Democracy, 21 May 2006. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
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