Third Bhattacharjee ministry

Members of the Left Front Ministry in the Indian state of West Bengal as in May 2006 were as follows:^[1]

Third Bhattacharjee ministry
10th Ministry of West Bengal
2006—2011
Date formed	18 May 2006
Date dissolved	13 May 2011
People and organisations
Governor	Viren J. Shah Gopalkrishna Gandhi Devanand Konwar (additional charge) M. K. Narayanan
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 235 / 294 (80%)
Opposition party	All India Trinamool Congress
Opposition leader	Partha Chatterjee
History
Election	2006
Outgoing election	2011
Legislature term	14th Assembly
Predecessor	Second Bhattacharjee ministry
Successor	First Banerjee ministry

Cabinet ministers

S.No	Name[2]	Portrait	Constituency	Assumed office[3]	Left office	Department	Party
1	Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (Chief Minister)		Jadavpur	18 May 2006	13 May 2011	Home & Hill Affairs Personnel & Administration Development & Planning Minority Affairs Home (P & R), Science and Technology Information & Cultural Affairs	CPI(M)
2	Nirupam Sen		Bardhaman Dakshin	18 May 2006	13 May 2011	Commerce & Industries Public Undertakings Industrial Reconstruction	CPI(M)
3	Surjya Kanta Mishra		Narayangarh	18 May 2006	13 May 2011	Health & Family Welfare Panchayats & Rural Development Bio-technology ESI	CPI(M)
4	Gautam Deb		Hasnabad	18 May 2006	13 May 2011	Housing Public Health Engineering	CPI(M)
5	Asim Dasgupta		Khardaha	18 May 2006	13 May 2011	Finance Excise	CPI(M)
6	Subhas Chakraborty		Belgachia East	18 May 2006	3 August 2009	Transport Youth Services Sports	CPI(M)
7	Naren Dey		Chinsurah	18 May 2006	13 May 2011	Agriculture Consumer Affairs	AIFB
8	Kshiti Goswami		Dhakuria	18 May 2006	13 May 2011	PWD	RSP
9	Nandagopal Bhatacharjee		Dantan	18 May 2006	13 May 2011	Minor Irrigation Water Investigation & Development	CPI
10	Kiranmoy Nanda		Mugberia	18 May 2006	13 May 2011	Fisheries Aqua-culture Harbours	WBSP
11	Pratim Chatterjee		Tarakeswar	18 May 2006	13 May 2011	Fire services Emergency Services	MFB
12	Partha De		Bankura	18 May 2006	13 May 2011	School Education	CPI(M)
13	Manab Mukherjee		Beleghata	18 May 2006	13 May 2011	Cottage & Small Scale Tourism	CPI(M)
14	Rekha Goswami		Dum Dum	18 May 2006	13 May 2011	Self-help Group Self-employment	CPI(M)
15	Ashok Bhattacharya		Siliguri	18 May 2006	13 May 2011	Municipal Affairs Urban Development North Bengal Development and Hill affairs Town & Country planning	CPI(M)
16	Abdur Razzak Molla		Canning Purba	18 May 2006	13 May 2011	Land & Land Reforms	CPI(M)
17	Sailen Sarkar		English Bazar	18 May 2006	13 May 2011	Parliamentary Affairs	CPI(M)
18	Mrinal Banerjee		Durgapur-I	18 May 2006	13 May 2011	Power Labour	CPI(M)
19	Biswanath Chowdhury		Balurghat	18 May 2006	13 May 2011	Jail Child & Women Development Social Welfare	RSP
20	Rabindra Ghosh		Uluberia	18 May 2006	13 May 2011	Co-operation	AIFB
21	Jogesh Chandra Barman		Falakata	18 May 2006	13 May 2011	Backward Classes Welfare	CPI(M)
22	Anisur Rahman		Domkal	18 May 2006	13 May 2011	Animal Resources Development	CPI(M)
23	Debesh Das		Taltola	18 May 2006	13 May 2011	Information Technology	CPI(M)

• Ashok Bhattacharya - Municipal Affairs, Urban Development, North Bengal Development and Hill affairs, Town & Country planning
• Abdur Razzak Molla - Land & Land Reforms
• Sailen Sarkar - Parliamentary Affairs
• Mrinal Banerjee - Power, labour
• Biswanath Chowdhury - Jail, Child & Women Development, Social Welfare
• Rabindra Ghosh - Co-operation
• Jogesh Barman - Backward Classes Welfare
• Anisur Rahaman - Animal Resources Development
• Dr Debesh Das - Information Technology
• Prof. Sudarshan Roy Choudhury - Higher Education
• Ananta Roy Barman – Forests
• Paresh Chandra Adhikari - Food and Supplies Department
• Robilal Moitra - Judicial and Law Department
• Chakradhar Meikap - Technical Education
• Subhas Naskar - Irrigation, Waterways
• Kanti Ganguly - Sunderbans Development Affairs
• Susanta Ghosh - Paschimanchal Unnayan Affairs
• Mohanta Chatterjee – Environment
• Dr Mortoza Hossein - Relief, Agricultural Marketing

Ministers of State

• Deblina Hembram - MOS Backward Classes Welfare
• Manohar Tirkey - MOS PWD
• Srikumar Mukherjee - MOS Home, Civil Defence
• Bilashibala Sahis - MOS Forests
• Narayan Biswas - MOS Cottage & Small Scale Industries
• Abdus Sattar - MOS Minorities Development, Welfare, Madrasah
• Bankim Chandra Ghosh - MOS Panchayat & Rural Development
• Anwarul Haque - MOS Public Health engineering
• Binay Krishna Biswas - MOS Refugee relief & Rehabilitation
• Tapan Roy - MOS Mass Education Extension, Library
• Anadi Kumar Sahu - MOS Labour

Notes

1. I/C stands for independent charge. It means that a minister can hold portfolios independently in a junior rank.