Kolkata, May 27: Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee was on Friday sworn in for a second consecutive term as West Bengal chief minister at a grand public ceremony witnessed by hundreds of supporters in addition to eminent personalities.
Attired in a easy white sari and white stole, Banerjee was administered the oath of workplace and secrecy by Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi in a ceremony held on the metropolis’s historic Indira Gandhi Sarani (Red Road), a large boulevard that bisects the Maidan.
Banerjee, the state’s eighth chief minister and the primary girl to occupy the put up, took her oath in Bengali, and within the identify of “Ishwar and Allah”.
She devoted the occasion to “Ma, Mati, Manush” (Mother, land and other people”, Banerjee’s pet slogan.
Together with the chief minister, 41 different ministers had been additionally sworn in. The ministerial council has 18 contemporary faces, together with former Indian cricketer Laxmi Ratan Shukla, metropolis mayor Sovan Chatterjee, famous Bengali singer Indranil Sen, veteran Trinamool chief Sovandeb Chattopadhyay, and Marxist-turned Trinamool lawmaker Abdur Rezzak Mollah.
Twenty-eight of the ministers had been of cabinet rank, 5 ministers of state (unbiased cost) and eight ministers of state.
Chatterjee, Chattopadhyay and Mollah obtained cupboard berths, whereas Shukla and Sen have been made ministers of state.
Three of the ministers are ladies, seven belong to the Muslim neighborhood, whereas the Scheduled Caste and tribe communities additionally bought a number of representatives.
Amit Mitra, Partha Chatterjee, Subrata Mukherjee, Sovandeb Chattopadhyay and Joardar had been the primary group of ministers to be administered the oath by the governor after the chief minister. The opposite ministers have been then sworn in in batches. Quite a few them have been seen touching Banerjee’s toes after taking oath.
All of the ministers took their oath in Bengali, besides Golam Rabbani, who most popular Hindi.
Bhutan Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay was among the many company who graced the event in addition to Bangladesh Trade Minister Amir Hossain Amu. Union ministers Arun Jaitley and Babul Supriyo have been current in addition to chief ministers — Arvind Kejriwal of Delhi, Akhilesh Yadav of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar’s Nitish Kumar. Former chief ministers — Jammu and Kashmir’s Farooq Abdullah and Bihar’s Lalu Prasad have been additionally present.
Ex Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly, main figures from the Bengali movie trade, frontline industrialists of the state, members of the diplomatic corps additionally attended the performance.
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