First Bhattacharjee ministry

Buddhadev Bhattacharya was sworn in as the Chief Minister of West Bengal in the fifth Left Front government along with other 45 ministers on 5 November 2000. Members of the Left Front Ministry in the Indian state of West Bengal as in November 2000 were as follows:

Cabinet ministers
1. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee- Chief Minister- Home, Hill Affairs, Information and Cultural Affairs 2. Subhas Chakraborty- Sports, Transport

3. Asim Dasgupta- Finance, Development and Planning, Excise, Self Employment Genaration Programme (Urban)

4. Mohammed Amin- Employment Exchange, Minority Development and Welfare, Wakf and Urdu Academy and Haj

5. Dr. Surjya Kanta Mishra- Land and Land Reforms, Panchayats and Rural Development

6. Kiranmay Nanda- Fisheries

7. Satyaranjan Mahata- Relief

8. Gautam Deb- Housing, Public Health Engineering

9. Partha De- Health and Family Welfare

10. Santi Ranjan Ghatak- Labour

11. Abdur Razzak Molla- Food Processing Industries, Horticulture, Sundarban Affairs

12. Kshiti Goswami- Public Works

13. Kanti Biswas- School Education, Madrasah Education, Refugee, Relief and Rehabilitation

14. Kalimuddin Shams- Food and Supplies

15. Ashok Bhattacharya- Urban Development, Municipal Affairs, Town and Country Planning, Hooghly River Bridge Commission

16. Anisur Rahman- Animal Resources Development

17. Nanda Gopal Bhattacharjee- Water Resources Investigation and Development

18. Mrinal Banerjee- Power, Industrial Reconstruction, Public Undertakings, Science and Technology

19. Chhaya Bera- Employees State Insurance, Employment Exchange, Self Employment Genaration Programme (Rural)

20. Birendra Kumar Moitra- Agricultural Marketing

21. Bhakti Bhusan Mandal- Co-operation

22. Dinesh Chandra Dakua- Backward Classes Welfare

23. Pralay Talukdar- Cottage and Small Scale Industries

24. Prof. Prabodh Chandra Sinha- Parliamentary Affairs

25. Biswanath Chowdhury- Jails, Social Welfare

26. Debabrata Bandapadhyay- Irrigation and Waterways

27. Manabendra Mukherjee- Environment, Tourism, Youth Services

28. Naren Dey- Agriculrure, Consumer Affairs

29. Satya Sadhan Chakraborty- Higher Education

30. Bidyut Ganguly- Commerce and Industries

31. Dr. Sankar Sen- Power, Science and Technology

32. Jogesh Chandra Barman- Forests

33. Nisith Adhikary- Judicial, Law

Ministers of State
1. Manohar Tirkey- Public Works

2. Upen Kisku- Backward Classes Welfare

3. Kamalendu Sanyal- Land and Land Reforms, Panchayats and Rural Development

4. Bilasi Bala Sahis- Forests

5. Srikumar Mukherjee- Civil Defence

6. Pratim Chatterjee- Fire Services

7. Nimai Mal- Library Services

8. Susanta Ghosh- Transport

9. Dhiren Sen- Excise

10. Ganesh Chandra Mondal- Irrigation and Waterways

11. Maheswar Murmu- Special Tribal Areas Development including Jhargram Affairs

12. Anju Kar- Mass Education Extension

13. Minati Ghosh- Health and Family Welfare