Fifth Basu ministry

Fifth Basu ministry
15th Ministry of West Bengal
1996-2000
Date formed	16 May 1996
Date dissolved	4 November 2000
People and organisations
Governor	K. V. Raghunatha Reddy Akhlaqur Rehman Kidwai Shyamal Kumar Sen Viren J. Shah Cabinet Ministers Minister of state (I/C) Minister of state
Chief Minister	Jyoti Basu
Member party	Left Front
Status in legislature	Majority 203 / 294 (69%)
Opposition party	Indian National Congress
Opposition leader	Atish Chandra Sinha
History
Election(s)	1996
Outgoing election	2001
Legislature term(s)	12th Assembly
Predecessor	Fourth Basu ministry
Successor	First Bhattacharjee ministry

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Jyoti Basu was sworn in as the Chief Minister of West Bengal in the fifth Left Front government along with other 46 ministers on 16 May 1996. On 4th November 2000, Basu resigned due to poor health and old age and a new ministry under Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was sworn in on 5 November 2000. Members of the Left Front Ministry in the Indian state of West Bengal as in May 1996 were as follows:

Cabinet ministers

1. Jyoti Basu- Chief Minister- Home (Excluding Police), Hill Affairs

2. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee- Deputy Chief Minister- Home (Police), Information and Cultural Affairs

3. Subhas Chakraborty- Sports, Transport

4. Asim Dasgupta- Finance, Development and Planning, Excise, Self Employment Genaration Programme (Urban)

5. Mohammed Amin- Employment Exchange, Minority Development and Welfare, Wakf and Urdu Academy and Haj

6. Dr. Surjya Kanta Mishra- Land and Land Reforms, Panchayats and Rural Development

7. Kiranmay Nanda- Fisheries

8. Satyaranjan Mahata- Relief

9. Gautam Deb- Housing, Public Health Engineering

10. Partha De- Health and Family Welfare

11. Santi Ranjan Ghatak- Labour

12. Abdur Razzak Molla- Food Processing Industries, Horticulture, Sundarban Affairs

13. Kshiti Goswami- Public Works

14. Kanti Biswas- School Education, Madrasah Education, Refugee, Relief and Rehabilitation

15. Kalimuddin Shams- Food and Supplies

16. Ashok Bhattacharya- Urban Development, Municipal Affairs, Town and Country Planning, Hooghly River Bridge Commission

17. Anisur Rahman- Animal Resources Development

18. Nanda Gopal Bhattacharjee- Water Resources Investigation and Development

19. Mrinal Banerjee- Power, Industrial Reconstruction, Public Undertakings, Science and Technology

20. Chhaya Bera- Employees State Insurance, Employment Exchange, Self Employment Genaration Programme (Rural)

21. Birendra Kumar Moitra- Agricultural Marketing

22. Bhakti Bhusan Mandal- Co-operation

23. Dinesh Chandra Dakua- Backward Classes Welfare

24. Pralay Talukdar- Cottage and Small Scale Industries

25. Prof. Prabodh Chandra Sinha- Parliamentary Affairs

26. Biswanath Choudhury- Jails, Social Welfare

27. Debabrata Bandapadhyay- Irrigation and Waterways

28. Manabendra Mukherjee- Environment, Tourism, Youth Services

29. Naren Dey- Agriculrure, Consumer Affairs

30. Satya Sadhan Chakraborty- Higher Education

31. Bidyut Ganguly- Commerce and Industries

32. Dr. Sankar Sen- Power, Science and Technology

33. Jogesh Chandra Barman- Forests

34. Nisith Adhikary- Judicial, Law

Ministers of State

1. Manohar Tirkey- Public Works

2. Upen Kisku- Backward Classes Welfare

3. Kamalendu Sanyal- Land and Land Reforms, Panchayats and Rural Development

4. Bilasi Bala Sahis- Forests

5. Srikumar Mukherjee- Civil Defence

6. Pratim Chatterjee- Fire Services

7. Nimai Mal- Library Services

8. Susanta Ghosh- Transport

9. Dhiren Sen- Excise

10. Ganesh Chandra Mondal- Irrigation and Waterways

11. Maheswar Murmu- Special Tribal Areas Development including Jhargram Affairs

12. Anju Kar- Mass Education Extension

13. Minati Ghosh- Health and Family Welfare

See also

• Second Bhattacharjee ministry
• Left Front (West Bengal)

References

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