Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday distributed the portfolios of her 44-member cabinet keeping Home, Hill Affairs, Personnel and Administration, health and family affairs, land and land reform, refugee and rehabilitation, Information and Cultural Affairs and North Bengal Development.
Earlier in the day 42 legislators and Amit Mitra, who did not contest the poll, took oath, which was administered by Governor Jagdeep Dhankar at Raj Bhawan at a brief and simple ceremony under covid protocol. ‘Those who did not get a place in the cabinet will be placed at the head of the committee,” said Ms Banerjee.
TMC MLA Tapas Roy is the Deputy Chief Whip of the Legislative Assembly. and Ashish Banerjee is the Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. Party senior leader Biman Banrjee was already elected as the Speaker.
Ms Banerjee, who had declared that fighting Covid -19 is her top priority, today announced “free vaccine to everyone in the state.” “I will give 10 million vaccines to private hospitals,” she said. ” I will vaccinate everyone in the state free of cost.”
