KOLKATA: Mamata Banerjee will be sworn in today as the first woman chief minister of West Bengal heading a Trinamool Congress-Congress alliance government, marking a change of guard that will see the end of 34 years of uninterrupted rule by CPM-led Left Front.
The oath of office and secrecy to Mamata will be administered by Governor M K Narayanan on the Raj Bhawan lawns at 1:01pm, a time chosen by the Trinamool Congress chief.
Ahead of her shift from New Delhi to Kolkata, she resigned as railway minister during on Thursday.
Trinamool Congress will have 36 ministers but the number of Congress ministers has not been disclosed.
A list of the 36 Trinamool Congress ministers were received by the chief secretary's office from the Raj Bhavan, sources in the Writers'Buildings, the state secretariat, said.
Trinamool Congress ministers' list includes the name of former FICC Secretary General Amit Mitra, party leader Partha Chatterjee, former state Home Secretary Manish Gupta, MLAs Subrata Mukherjee, Abdul Karim Chowdhury, Sadhan Pandey, Upen Biswas, Sabitri Mitra, Bratya Basu, Madan Mitra and Noore Alam Chowdhury.
Congress, which had fought the assembly polls in alliance with TC, also decided to join the government.
"We are going to join the government. We have conveyed this to the Hon'ble chief minister. You will get to know who from Congress will be joining the government," AICC observer in-charge of West Bengal Shakeel Ahmed said after a CLP meeting which took the decision of participating in the ministry.
Ahmed, who was flanked by defence minister A K Antony, said the names of Congress ministers had been communicated to Banerjee but did not disclose them to the media.
He said Union home minster P Chidambaram and finance minister Pranab Mukherjee would be among central leaders attending the swearing-in.
Antony said there was "a special gift" from Gandhi to Banerjee "which we handed over to her".
The swearing-in will take place in the presence of 3200 invitees drawn from among the top names in politics, business and art and culture.
The huge guest list includes former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee who has been invited along with wife Meera by deputy leader of the Trinamool Congress Legislature Party Partha Chatterjee who personally went to their Palm Avenue residence, the first visit by any Trinamool leader there since the party came into existence in 1998.
Also invited were CPI(M) state secretary Biman Bose, CPI state secretary Manju Kumar Majumder, RSP leader Kshiti Goswami and Forward Bloc state secretary Ashok Ghosh.
The Left Front leaders, including Bhattacharjee and Bose, would attend the ceremony at Rajbhavan, CPM sources said..
Narayanan has already appointed Banerjee as chief minister.
Trinamool Congress and allies Congress and SUCI had stormed to power in the state with a three-fourths majority signalling the historic changeover in the state's politics
The oath of office and secrecy to Mamata will be administered by Governor M K Narayanan on the Raj Bhawan lawns at 1:01pm, a time chosen by the Trinamool Congress chief.
Ahead of her shift from New Delhi to Kolkata, she resigned as railway minister during on Thursday.
Trinamool Congress will have 36 ministers but the number of Congress ministers has not been disclosed.
A list of the 36 Trinamool Congress ministers were received by the chief secretary's office from the Raj Bhavan, sources in the Writers'Buildings, the state secretariat, said.
Trinamool Congress ministers' list includes the name of former FICC Secretary General Amit Mitra, party leader Partha Chatterjee, former state Home Secretary Manish Gupta, MLAs Subrata Mukherjee, Abdul Karim Chowdhury, Sadhan Pandey, Upen Biswas, Sabitri Mitra, Bratya Basu, Madan Mitra and Noore Alam Chowdhury.
Congress, which had fought the assembly polls in alliance with TC, also decided to join the government.
"We are going to join the government. We have conveyed this to the Hon'ble chief minister. You will get to know who from Congress will be joining the government," AICC observer in-charge of West Bengal Shakeel Ahmed said after a CLP meeting which took the decision of participating in the ministry.
Ahmed, who was flanked by defence minister A K Antony, said the names of Congress ministers had been communicated to Banerjee but did not disclose them to the media.
He said Union home minster P Chidambaram and finance minister Pranab Mukherjee would be among central leaders attending the swearing-in.
Antony said there was "a special gift" from Gandhi to Banerjee "which we handed over to her".
The swearing-in will take place in the presence of 3200 invitees drawn from among the top names in politics, business and art and culture.
The huge guest list includes former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee who has been invited along with wife Meera by deputy leader of the Trinamool Congress Legislature Party Partha Chatterjee who personally went to their Palm Avenue residence, the first visit by any Trinamool leader there since the party came into existence in 1998.
Also invited were CPI(M) state secretary Biman Bose, CPI state secretary Manju Kumar Majumder, RSP leader Kshiti Goswami and Forward Bloc state secretary Ashok Ghosh.
The Left Front leaders, including Bhattacharjee and Bose, would attend the ceremony at Rajbhavan, CPM sources said..
Narayanan has already appointed Banerjee as chief minister.
Trinamool Congress and allies Congress and SUCI had stormed to power in the state with a three-fourths majority signalling the historic changeover in the state's politics
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