New Delhi: CPI-M leader Buddhadev Bhattacharya will on Wednesday again be sworn-in as the chief minister in the newly elected Assembly.
Fifteen new faces in the council of 44 ministers will be sworn in. Among them Rabilal Maitra (law), Sudarshan Roy Chowdhury (higher education) Partha De (school education) Tapan Roy (mass education and library) Rekha Goswami (self help).
Pro tem Speaker Gyan Singh Sohanpal, on Wednesday, administered oath to the newly elected 127 members. Swearing-in of the other newly elected members will continue on Wednesday.
Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi at the Raj Bhavan, on Tuesday, appointed Sohanpal, as the Pro tem Speaker. Speaker of the 13th Assembly Hashim Abdul Halim was the first member to take oath.
Those sworn in as members in the new house included, Asim Dasgupta, Subhas Chakraborty, Jogesh Burman, Anisur Rahman, Sailen Sarkar, Bilasibala Sahis (all CPI-M), Naren Dey (AIFB), Kshiti Goswami, Biswanath Chowdhury, Subhas Naskar, Amar Chowdhury, Dasarath Tirkey (all RSP), Nandagopal Bhattacharya, Srikumar Mukherjee (both CPI), Deepa Dasmunshi, Manas Bhuniya (both Congress) and Debaprasad Sarkar of the Suci.
Gopalkrishna Gandhi on May 15 invited Buddhadeb Bhattacharya to form the new Council of ministers after the chief minister tendered his resignation and formally staked claim to form the new government in the State.
The (CPI-M)-led Left Front stormed back to power in West Bengal for the seventh consecutive term in the Assembly elections.
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