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Live Updates: Mamata Banerjee to be sworn in as West Bengal CM today at 12:45 PM, Bengal CM Swearing-in, Mamata Banerjee Oath Taking Ceremony, West Bengal Assembly election 2016, Red Road, Latest Updates Mamata Banerjee swearing-in ceremony
Mamata will take oath as the Chief Minister of West Bengal for a second term today at Red Road 12:45 PM.
Officials said an elaborate security cover has been arranged for the function — around 1,000 policemen will be deployed on Red Road. This is the first time a chief minister will take oath on Red Road in an event “open to the public”.
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Here are the LIVE updates:-
- 1:09 pm: The ceremony ends with the National Anthem
- 1:07 pm: Lakhiratan Shukla, Zakir Hossin, Indranil Sen Shyamal Santra take oath as Ministers of State.
- 1:06 pm: Ashish Bandhopadhyay, James Kujur, Tapan Dasgupta take oath
- 1:02 pm: Next batch to take oath are the ministers of state (Independent Charge). They are Swapan Debnath, Sashi Panja, Siddikulaah Chowdhury and Ashima Patra
- 12:57 pm: Chandranath Singh, Soumen Mahapatra, Rajeeb Bandhopadhyay, Churamani Mahato and Malay Ghatak take oath.
- 12:55 pm: Purnendhu Basu, Rabindranath Ghosh, Arup Roy Shantiram Mahato, and Bratya Basu take oath
- 12:52 pm:Ministers Abdur Rezzak Molla, Suvendu Adhikari, Sadhan Pandey and Jyotipriya Malkik take oath.
- 12:50 pm:Ministers Firhad Hakim, Arup Biswas, Javed Khan, Sovan Chatterjee and Gouam Deb take oath.
- 12:48 pm:Just like Tamil Nadu, ministers take oath in batches. First to take are: Amit Mitra, Partha Chatterjee, Abani Jowardar, and Sovandeb Chatterjee.
- 12:47 pm:Her council of ministers include five Minister of States (Independent Charge) and 8 MoS.
- 12:44 pm: The Governor administers the oath of screcy to Ms. Banerjee
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12:43 pm: 'Ame Mamata Banerjee' Ms. Banerjee takes oath as the chief minister in the name of 'Iswar aur Allah'
- 12:40 pm: Governor K.N. Tripathi has arrived. National anthem is being played.
- 12:38 pm: Ms. Banerjee has arrived at the venue.
- This is for the first time that a chief minister will take oath on Red Road at 12:45 PM..
- Along with Mamata, 41 legislators will also take oath today - 18 of them are new faces.
- Banerjee said that Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Union Minister Babul Supriyo, Bangladesh Industry Minister, Bhutan Prime Minister, Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Singh Yadav have confirmed their presence in the ceremony.
- A stage the size of a tennis court, a huge air-conditioned VIP lounge to host VVIP guests, a green landscaped garden and a fountain right in front of the stage have been set up for the grand event.
- The West Bengal government has made massive arrangements to make the oath ceremony a grand affair.
| Ministers | Ministries/Portfolios |
| Amit Mitra | The economist-turned-politician was the Finance Minister in first sticnt of Trinamool government He is the incumbent MLA in the West Bengal Assembly from the Khardaha constituency. |
| Partha Chatterjee | Elected from Behala Paschim, Mr. Chatterjee held various portfolios such as commerce and industry, public enterprises, information technology and parliamentary affairs. |
| Subrata Mukherjee | The former minister of health and Panchayat was elected from Ballygunge constituency. |
| Sovandeb Chatterjee | The MLA from Rashberi is a first-time minister. |
| Suvendu Adhikari | He represents Tamluk and is a first-time minister. |
| Goutam Deb | He was in-charge of North Bengal Development in the previous term and represents Dabgram-Phulbari constituency. |
| Abani Joardar | This Krishna Nagar Uttar MLA is a first-time minister. |
| Bratya Basu | This Dum Dum MLA was handling the education portfolio and later tourism in the last government. |
| Sovan Chatterjee | He is the Mayor of Kolkata. He was elected from Behala Purba constituency. |
| Abdur Rezzak Mollah | This former CPI(M) leader joined Trinamool Congress months before the elections. He won from Bhangar. |
| Jyotipriyo Mullick | This is the second term for Mullick who represents Habra. |
| Binay Barman | He got elected from Mathabhanga and is a new minister. |
| Rabindranath Ghosh | Another new minister, he represents Natabari. |
| Santiram Mahato | This new minister is from Gopiballavpur constituency. |
| Tapan Dasgupta | He was elected from Saptagram constituency. |
| Churamani Mahato | He is an MLA from Kumargram constituency. |
| James Kujur | He was elected from Kumargram constituency. |
| Siddiquallah Chowdhury | He represents Mangalkote in the Assembly. |
| Ashima Patra | He represents Dhanikhali in the Assembly. |
| Bachhu Hansda | He represents Tapan in the Assembly. |
| Ghulam Rabbani | He represents Goalpokhar in the Assembly. |
| Zakir Hossain | He represents Jangipur in the Assembly. |
| Laxmi Ratan Shukla | Elected from Howrah North, all-rounder Shukla recently retired from all forms of cricket. |
| Indranil Sen | He represents Jangipur in the Assembly. |
| Sandharani Tudu | He represents Chandannagar in the Assembly. |
| Firhad Hakim | He represents Manbazar in the Assembly. |
| Shashi Panja | She was a former Minister of State and had independent charge of the women & child welfare ministry. She represents Shyampukur constituency. |
| Sadhan Pande | This former Minister for Consumer Affairs & Self Help Group & Self-Employment won from Maniktala constituency. |
| Moloy Ghatak | Earlier the Minister for Labour and ESI Department, he was elected from Asanol North constituency. |
| Chandranath Sinha | This former minister for fisheries was elected from Bolpur constituency. |
| Rajib Banerjee | This former Irrigation Minister represents Domjur constituency. |
| Ashish Banerjee | This former Health Minister now represents Rampurhat constituency. |
| Purnendu Bose | This former Labour Minister won from Rajarhat-Gopalpur constituency. |
| Manturam Pakhira | Elected from Kakdwip, he was a junior minister in-charge of Sunderbans Development. |
| Soumen Mahapatra | The Pingala MLA earlier held the Water Resources Investigation & Development portfolio. |
| Swapan Debnath | He is former Minister for Micro and Small Scale Enterprises and Textile from Purbasthali South constituency. |
| Arup Roy | The Howrah Central MLA was previously the minister for Agricultural Marketing |
| Arup Biswas | The former minister for Youth Affairs and Housing won in Tollygunge constituency. |
| Giasuddin Mollah | The former Minority Affairs minister was elected from Magrahat constituency. |
| Javed Khan | He was the former Minister for Disaster Management and is from Kasba constituency. |
| Shyamal Santra | He represents Kotulpur constituency. |
"I have submitted the list to the honourable Governor. Along with me, altogether 42 of us will take oath tomorrow at the swearing-in ceremony. Among the 41 MLAs there will be 17 new faces.There has been representation from all districts, except Malda, caste, religion and creed.
In Malda we don't have any representation. Out of the 42 there are a few new faces. The rest are the same," Banerjee said.
The new faces in the state cabinet include former Indian cricketer Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Shovandeb Chattopadhaya, Kolkata Mayor Shovan Chatterjee, Abani Mohan Joarder, Abdur Rezzak Mollah, Suvendu Adhikari, Rabindranath Ghosh, Churamani Mahato, James Kujur, Siddikullah Choudhury, Asima Patra, Ghulam Rabbani, Zakir Hossain, Sandhya Rani Tudu, singer Indranil Sen, Tapan Dasgupta and B Hansda.
Banerjee said the portfolios are yet to be decided.