Draft:Second Basu ministry

Jyoti Basu was sworn in as the Chief Minister of West Bengal in the fourth Left Front government along with other 32 ministers on 24 May 1982. Members of the Left Front Ministry in the Indian state of West Bengal as in November 1987 were as follows:

Cabinet ministers
1. Jyoti Basu- Chief Minister, Home, Development and Planning, Finance (1982-1983; 1986–1987)

2. Benoy Choudhury- Land and Land Reforms, Panchayats, Rural Development, Community Development, Integrated Rural Development Programme and National Rural Employment Programme 3. Dr. Ashok Mitra- Finance (1983-1986)

4. Dr. Kanailal Bhattacharya- Commerce and Industries, Industrial Reconstruction, Public Undertakings

5. Kamal Guha- Agriculture, Rural Water Supply and Sanitation

6. Syed Abdul Mansur Habibullah- Judicial, Legislative

7. Prasanta Sur- Local Government and Urban Development, Metropolitan Development, Urban Water Supply and Sanitation

8. Krishnapada Ghosh- Labour

9. Parimal Mitra- Forests, Tourism

10. Radhika Ranjan Banerjee- Food and Supplies

11. Jatin Chakraborty- Housing, Public Works

12. Debabrata Bandapadhyay- Jails, Social Welfare

13. Kanti Biswas- Primary and Secondary Education

14. Nani Bhattacharya- Irrigation and Waterways

15. Bhabani Mukherjee- Environment

16. Sambhu Charan Ghosh- Higher Education

17. Pravas Chandra Roy- Sundarban Affairs

18. Nirmal Kumar Bose- Co-operation

19. Amritendu Mukherjee- Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Services, Refugee, Relief and Rehabilitation

20. Kanai Bhowmik- Minor Irrigation, Small Irrigation and Command Area Development, West Bengal Agro-Industries Corporation Limited

21. Rabin Mukherjee- Transport

22. Dr. Sambhu Nath Mandi- Jhargram Affairs, Scheduled Castes and Tribes Welfare

Ministers of State
1. Achintya Krishna Ray- Food and Supplies 2. Dawa Lama- Hill Affairs

3. Santi Ranjan Ghatak- Development and Planning, Finance

4. Prabir Sengupta- Labour

5. Sunil Kumar Majumder-Land and Land Reforms

6. Abdur Razzak Molla- Sundarban Affairs

7. Shibendra Narayan Chowdhury- Transport

8. Banamali Roy- Scheduled Castes and Tribes Welfare

9. Sailen Sarkar- Local Government and Urban Development

10. Md. Abdul Bari- Primary and Secondary Education