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Kolkata:
The 43-member cabinet which took oath of the office Friday
along with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, included five Muslims
from the ruling alliance leader Trinamool Congress Party.
The newly elected West Bengal
assembly has a total of 59 Muslim MLAs belonging to the ruling and
opposition political groups.
The
Muslim ministers inducted in the Mamata cabinet are Haidar Aziz Safwi, Javed Ahmed
Khan, Abdul Karim Chowdhury, Firad Hakim and Noor Alam Chowdhury.
Clad in a simple white sari and wearing a tricolor ‘uttariya’
(long scarf), that has by now now become her trade mark, Ms.
Banerjee took the oath in Bengali in the name of God.
Most of the cabinet ministers took the oath in Bengali, except
Firhad Hakim and Javed Ahmed Khan who took it in English, Abdul
Karim Chowdhury in Urdu and Sukumar Hansda in Santhali.
Karim Chowdhury, H.A. Sawfi, Firhad Hakim and Abu Henna took the
oath in the name of Allah. Upen Biswas took the oath in the name
of Buddha.
Shortly after the swearing-in ceremony, the chief minister joined
the Governor for tea.
Earlier, huge crowds gathered on both sides of the road from
Kalighat to Raj Bhavan and waved and blew conches as Ms.
Banerjee’s convoy drove by.
The police erected barricades along the Council House Street to
Writers’ Buildings and before the Eden Gardens.
List of Ministers
Subrata Bakshi, Partha Chatterjee, Subrata Mukherjee, Sadhan Pande,
Upen Biswas, Rabindranath Bhattacharjee, Sabitri Mitra, Haidar
Aziz Safwi, Rabiranjan Chatterjee, Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar,
Sukumar Hansda, Arup Roy, Chandranath Singha, Manish Gupta, Amit
Mitra, Purnendu Bose, Subrata Saha, Javed Khan, Bratya Basu,
Sankar Chakraborty, Kashinath Mishra, Santiram Mahato, Hiten
Barman, Goutam Deb, Rachpal Singh, Abdul Karim Chowdhury, Firad
Hakim, Jyotipriya Mallick, Ujjal Biswas, Noor Alam Chowdhury,
Moloy Ghatak, Manjul Krishna Thakur, Shyamal Mandal, Madan Mitra,
Shyamapada Mukherjee and Soumen Mahapatra.
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