Second Bhattacharjee ministry

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Second Bhattacharjee ministry
10th Ministry of West Bengal
2001—2006
Date formed	10 May 2001
Date dissolved	8 May 2006
People and organisations
Governor	Viren J. Shah Gopalkrishna Gandhi
Chief Minister	Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
No. of ministers	Cabinet Ministers Minister of state (I/C)^[a] Minister of state
Member party	Left Front
Status in legislature	Majority 199 / 294 (68%)
Opposition party	All India Trinamool Congress
Opposition leader	Pankaj Banerjee
History
Election	2001
Outgoing election	2006
Legislature term	13th Assembly
Predecessor	First Bhattacharjee ministry
Successor	Third Bhattacharjee ministry

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Buddhadev Bhattacharya was sworn in as the chief minister of West Bengal in the sixth Left Front government along with other 47 ministers.^[1] Members of the Left Front Ministry in the Indian state of West Bengal as in May 2006 were as follows:

Cabinet ministers

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee - Chief Minister; Home (Police), Information and Cultural Affairs, Science and Technology
Nirupam Sen - Industry, Public Undertakings & Industrial Reconstruction, Planning & Development
Dr Surjya Kanta Mishra - Health & Family welfare, Rural Development, Panchayat
Mohammed Amin - Labour
Asim Dasgupta - Finance
Subhas Chakraborty - Transport, Sports, Hooghly River Bridge Commissioners
Mohammed Salim - Minorities Development & Welfare, Self-employment Scheme for the Urban Unemployed, Youth Services, Technical Education
Kamal Guha - Agriculture
Biswanath Chowdhury - Social Welfare, Jails
Kiranmoy Nanda - Fisheries, Aquaculture, Aquatic Resources, Harbours
Nandagopal Bhattacharjee - Small Irrigation, Water Investigation Development
Prabodh Sinha - Parliamentary Affairs & Excise
Kalimuddin Shams - Food & Supplies
Amar Chaudhuri - Public Works
Gautam Deb - Housing & Public Health and Engineering
Kanti Biswas - School Education, Madrasah
Naren De - Cooperation & Consumer Affairs
Manabendra Mukherjee - Information Technology & Environment
Ashok Bhattacharya - Municipal Affairs, Urban Development, Town and Country Planning
Dinesh Dakua - Tourism
Sailen Sarkar - Food Processing and Horticulture
Satyasadhan Chakravarty - Higher Education
Amarendralal Roy - Irrigation and Waterways
Abdur Razzak Molla - Land and Land Reforms
Mrinal Banerjee - Power
Bansa Gopal Chowdhury - Cottage & Small Scale Industry
Nisith Adhikary - Law and Judicial Department
Upen Kisku - Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes Welfare
Anisur Rahman - Animal Resources Development
Jogesh Chandra Barman - Forests
Nemai Mal - Library Services
Nandarani Dal - Mass Education
Chhaya Ghosh - Agriculture Marketing
Hafiz Alam Sairani - Relief