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
- ^ I/C stands for independent charge. It means that a minister can hold portfolios independently in a junior rank.
References
- ^ "Bengal Left Front Ministry". People’s Democracy, 21 May 2006. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
