Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday defended the large size of her ministry saying it reflected representation of all districts.
On being reminded that she had earlier spoken about a small ministry, Mamata told a press conference, "We had to give representations to all districts, the minorities and schedule castes and schedule tribes."
She said that another six ministers would join. "Of them the Congress will give the names of five."
Along with her, 37 MLAs -- 35 from Trinamool Congress and 2 from ally Congress -- took oath as ministers of the two-tier ministry. Four Trinamool Congress MLAs were sworn in as Ministers of State.
The erstwhile Left Front government had 44 ministers.
Told that she had faced assaults in the past, Mamata replied, "I have been beaten up a number of times. I have suffered a lot of atrocities, but I choose not to remember them.
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