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Taking Charge : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Cabinet Sworn In , 43 Ministers Take Oath
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After her stunning election win, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s cabinet was sworn in at the Raj Bhawan in Kolkata By Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar. There are 43 ministers , 24 cabinet and 19 ministers of state .
Prominent among the ministers include , Amit Mitra, who was the finance minister under Banerjee in her two previous terms since 2011, but was not made a candidate in the recently concluded election due to his ill health.
Veteran leaders such as Subrata Mukherjee, Partha Chatterjee, Firhad Hakim, Jyoti Priya Mallick, Moloy Ghatak, Aroop Biswas, Dr Shashi Panja and Javed Ahmed Khan will be made cabinet ministers.
New faces in the council of ministers will include former IPS officer Humayun Kabir, former Bengal Ranji captain Manoj Tiwari and Siuli Saha, he said.
While Kabir will be among 10 persons who will become ministers of state (independent charge), Tiwari and Saha will feature in the list of nine MLAs who will be sworn-in as ministers of state.
