Draft:Fourth Basu ministry

Jyoti Basu was sworn in as the Chief Minister of West Bengal in the fourth Left Front government along with other 40 ministers on 19 June 1991. Members of the Left Front Ministry in the Indian state of West Bengal as in May 1996 were as follows:

Cabinet ministers
1. Jyoti Basu- Chief Minister- Home, Hill Affairs, Commerce and Industries, Fire Services

2. Benoy Choudhury- Land and Land Reforms, Development and Planning

3. Prasanta Sur- Health and Family Welfare, Refugee and Rehabilitation

4. Santi Ranjan Ghatak- Labour

5. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee- Information and Cultural Affairs, Municipal Affairs, Urban Development

6. Asim Dasgupta- Finance, Excise

7. Subhas Chakraborty- Sports, Tourism, Youth Services

8. Shyamal Chakraborty- Transport

9. Satya Sadhan Chakraborty- Higher Education

10. Dr. Sankar Sen- Power, Non Conventional Energy Sources, Science and Technology

11. Dr. Surjya Kanta Mishra- Panchayats, Rural Development

12. Mahboob Zahedi- Animal Resources Development, Minority Affairs and Haj, Wakf

13. Shri Matish Ray- Public Works (till 1994) Kshiti Goswami- Public Works (since 1994)

14. Gautam Deb- Housing, Public Health Engineering

15. Biswanath Chowdhury- Jails, Social Welfare

16. Abdul Quiyom Molla- Judicial, Law

17. Kalimuddin Shams- Agriculture Marketing

18. Dr. Omar Ali- Minor Irrigation, Small Irrigation and Command Area Development, West Bengal Agro-Industries Corporation Limited

19. Naren Dey- Food and Supplies

20. Achintya Krishna Ray- Primary and Secondary Education (till 1994)

Kanti Biswas- Primary and Secondary Education (since 1994)

21. Nihar Kumar Basu- Agriculture

22. Abdur Razzak Molla- Food Processing Industries, Sundarban Affairs

23. Prabir Sengupta- Cottage and Small Scale Industries

24. Kiranmay Nanda- Fisheries

25. Dr. Ambarish Mukhopadhyay- Environment, Forests

26. Dinesh Chandra Dakua- Scheduled Castes and Tribes Welfare

27. Saral Deb- Co-operation

28. Patit Paban Pathak- Industrial Reconstruction, Public Undertakings

29. Prof. Prabodh Chandra Sinha- Parliamentary Affairs

30. Chhaya Ghosh- Relief

31. Debabrata Bandapadhyay- Irrigation and Waterways

Ministers of State
1. Bilasi Bala Sahis- Scheduled Castes and Tribes Welfare 2. Bidyut Ganguly- Commerce and Industries

3. Chhaya Bera- Health and Family Welfare

4. Ashok Bhattacharya- Hill Affairs, Municipal Affairs, Urban Development

5. Anisur Rahman- Primary and Secondary Education, Madrasah Education

6. Dawa Lama- Animal Resources Development

7. Banamali Roy- Environment, Forests

8. Khagendra Nath Sinha- Housing, Public Health Engineering

9. Subodh Chaudhuri- Transport

10. Upen Kisku- Cottage and Small Scale Industries, Scheduled Castes and Tribes Welfare

11. Ganesh Chandra Mondal- Irrigation and Waterways