Buddhadev Bhattacharya was sworn in as the chief minister of West Bengal in the sixth Left Front government along with other 47 ministers. Members of the Left Front Ministry in the Indian state of West Bengal as in May 2006 were as follows:
Council of Ministers
Name Office Portfolio Took Office Left Office Party Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Chief Minister Home (Police); Information and Cultural Affairs; Science and Technology 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Nirupam Sen Cabinet Minister Industry; Public Undertakings & Industrial Reconstruction; Planning & Development 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Dr Surjya Kanta Mishra Cabinet Minister Health & Family welfare; Rural Development; Panchayat 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Mohammed Amin Cabinet Minister Labour 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Asim Dasgupta Cabinet Minister Finance 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Subhas Chakraborty Cabinet Minister Transport; Sports; Hooghly River Bridge Commissioners 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Mohammed Salim Cabinet Minister Minorities Development & Welfare; Self-employment Scheme for the Urban Unemployed; Youth Services; Technical Education 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Kamal Guha Cabinet Minister Agriculture 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Biswanath Chowdhury Cabinet Minister Social Welfare; Jails 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Kiranmoy Nanda Cabinet Minister Fisheries; Aquaculture; Aquatic Resources; Harbours 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Nandagopal Bhattacharjee Cabinet Minister Small Irrigation; Water Investigation Development 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Prabodh Sinha Cabinet Minister Parliamentary Affairs & Excise 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Kalimuddin Shams Cabinet Minister Food & Supplies 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Amar Chaudhuri Cabinet Minister Public Works 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Gautam Deb Cabinet Minister Housing; Public Health and Engineering 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Kanti Biswas Cabinet Minister School Education; Madrasah 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Naren De Cabinet Minister Cooperation & Consumer Affairs 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Manabendra Mukherjee Cabinet Minister Information Technology & Environment 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Ashok Bhattacharya Cabinet Minister Municipal Affairs; Urban Development; Town and Country Planning 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Dinesh Chandra Dakua Cabinet Minister Tourism 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Sailen Sarkar Cabinet Minister Food Processing and Horticulture 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Satyasadhan Chakravarty Cabinet Minister Higher Education 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Amarendralal Roy Cabinet Minister Irrigation and Waterways 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Abdur Razzak Molla Cabinet Minister Land and Land Reforms 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Mrinal Banerjee Cabinet Minister Power 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Bansa Gopal Chowdhury Cabinet Minister Cottage & Small Scale Industry 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Nisith Adhikary Cabinet Minister Law and Judicial Department 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Upen Kisku Cabinet Minister Scheduled Castes; Scheduled Tribes; Other Backward Classes Welfare 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Anisur Rahman Cabinet Minister Animal Resources Development 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Jogesh Chandra Barman Cabinet Minister Forests 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Nemai Mal Cabinet Minister Library Services 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Nandarani Dal Cabinet Minister Mass Education 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Chhaya Ghosh Cabinet Minister Agriculture Marketing 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Hafiz Alam Sairani Cabinet Minister Relief 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Pratim Chatterjee Minister of State Fire Services 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Dhiren Sen Minister of State Land and Land Reforms; Panchayats and Rural Development 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Susanta Ghosh Minister of State Labour; Employment Exchange; Employees’ State Insurance (ESI) 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Dasrath Tirkey Minister of State Public Works 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Maheswar Murmu Minister of State Pashchimanchal Development; Forests 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Anju Kar Minister of State Municipal Affairs 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Bilasibala Sahis Minister of State Scheduled Castes; Scheduled Tribes; OBC 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Ganesh Chandra Mondal Minister of State Irrigation & Waterways 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Srikumar Mukherjee Minister of State Civil Defence 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Kanti Ganguly Minister of State Sunderbans Development Affairs 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Pratyush Mukherjee Minister of State Health & Family Welfare 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Narayan Biswas Minister of State Transport 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Nayan Sarkar Minister of State Refugee Rehabilitation 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front Ibha Dey Minister of State School Education 15 May 2001 17 May 2006 Left Front
See also Third Bhattacharjee ministry Left Front (West Bengal)
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