Draft:Third Basu ministry

Jyoti Basu was sworn in as the Chief Minister of West Bengal in the fourth Left Front government along with other 27 ministers on 30 March 1987. 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, Commerce and Industries, Hill Affairs, Home, Housing, Industrial Reconstruction, Public Undertakings, Public Works (since 1988), Science and Technology

2. Benoy Choudhury- Community Development, Land and Land Reforms, Panchayats, Rural Development

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

4. Santi Ranjan Ghatak- Labour

5. Kamal Guha- Agriculture

6. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee- Information and Cultural Affairs, Local Government and Urban Development, Municipal Affairs

7. Jatin Chakraborty- Public Works (till 1988)

8. Nirmal Kumar Bose- Food and Supplies

9. Biswanath Chowdhury- Jails, Social Welfare

10. Subhas Chakraborty- Sports, Tourism, Youth Services

11. Md. Abdul Bari- Mass Education Extension, Adult Education, Madrasah Education, Social Welfare Homes, Social Education, Minority Affairs and Haj, Wakf

12. Achintya Krishna Ray- Cottage and Small Scale Industries

13. Shyamal Chakraborty- Transport

14. Asim Dasgupta- Finance, Development and Planning, Excise

15. Bhakti Bhusan Mandal- Co-operation

16. Kiranmay Nanda- Fisheries

17. Dr. Ambarish Mukhopadhyay- Environment, Forests

18. Dinesh Chandra Dakua- Jhargram Affairs, Scheduled Castes and Tribes Welfare

19. Kanai Bhowmik- Minor Irrigation, Small Irrigation and Command Area Development, West Bengal Agro-Industries Corporation Limited in the Department of Public Undertakings

20. Abdul Quiyom Molla- Judicial, Legislative, Parliamentary Affairs

21. Debabrata Bandapadhyay- Irrigation and Waterways

22. Kanti Biswas- Primary and Secondary Education

23. Prabir Sengupta- Power, Water Supply and Sanitation

Ministers of State
1. Maheswar Murmu- Jhargram Affairs, Scheduled Castes and Tribes Welfare 2. Ramanikanta Debsarma- Community Development, Land and Land Reforms, Panchayats, Rural Development

3. Syed Wahed Reza- Civil Defence

4. Dawa Lama- Hill Affairs, Local Government and Urban Development

5. Banamali Roy- Environment, Forests