SRK, Big B, Ambani to witness Mamata's swearing-in today
May 27, 2016 12:16
In a few minutes from now, Mamata Banerjee will be sworn in as the chief minister of West Bengal for the second term.
At the high decibel event will be a galaxy of Bollywood and Tollywood stars, and VVIPs. Kolkata Mayor Sovan Chatterjee, former Indian cricketer Laxmi Ratan Shukla and noted singer Indranil Sen will be among 18 new faces to be sworn in as ministers.
Bhutan Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay is the guest of honour at the ceremony.
The strength of the ministry would be 42, including the chief minister, Banerjee announced on Thursday, after submitting the list to Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi at the Raj Bhavan.
There are three women and seven members from the Muslim community in the ministry, which will be sworn in on the arterial Indira Gandhi Sarani (Red Road), where arrangements have been made for thousands of people to watch.
Apart from Tobgay, who is already in the city, Bangladesh Industry Minister Amir Hossain Amu, union ministers Arun Jaitley and Babul Supriyo, Chief Ministers Arvind Kejriwal (Delhi), Akhilesh Yadav (Uttar Pradesh), Nitish Kumar (Bihar), and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah have already confirmed their presence in the ceremony, said Banerjee.
Industrialist Mukesh Ambani and actors Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and OM Puri are among the 140 VVIPs who will be present Representing the Union government will be finance minister Arun Jaitley, parliamentary affairs minister Venkaiah Naidu and minister of state for urban development Babul Supriyo.
A couple of chief ministers from BJP-run state may also attend. The ministry's fresh entrants include former Marxist-turned-Trinamool Congress lawmaker Abdur Rezzak Mollah, Suvendu Adhikary, Sovandeb Chattopadhyay, Churamoni Mahato, Tapan Dasgupta, Siddiqullah Chowdhury and Asima Patra. Two retired IPS officers Abani Joardar and James Kujur, Gulam Rabbani, Bachchu Hansda, Jakir Hossain, Sandhyarani Tudu, Shaymal Santra and Rabindranath Ghosh are the other new inductions.
File pic of Mamata Banerjee with Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan.
At the high decibel event will be a galaxy of Bollywood and Tollywood stars, and VVIPs. Kolkata Mayor Sovan Chatterjee, former Indian cricketer Laxmi Ratan Shukla and noted singer Indranil Sen will be among 18 new faces to be sworn in as ministers.
Bhutan Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay is the guest of honour at the ceremony.
The strength of the ministry would be 42, including the chief minister, Banerjee announced on Thursday, after submitting the list to Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi at the Raj Bhavan.
There are three women and seven members from the Muslim community in the ministry, which will be sworn in on the arterial Indira Gandhi Sarani (Red Road), where arrangements have been made for thousands of people to watch.
Apart from Tobgay, who is already in the city, Bangladesh Industry Minister Amir Hossain Amu, union ministers Arun Jaitley and Babul Supriyo, Chief Ministers Arvind Kejriwal (Delhi), Akhilesh Yadav (Uttar Pradesh), Nitish Kumar (Bihar), and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah have already confirmed their presence in the ceremony, said Banerjee.
Industrialist Mukesh Ambani and actors Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and OM Puri are among the 140 VVIPs who will be present Representing the Union government will be finance minister Arun Jaitley, parliamentary affairs minister Venkaiah Naidu and minister of state for urban development Babul Supriyo.
A couple of chief ministers from BJP-run state may also attend. The ministry's fresh entrants include former Marxist-turned-Trinamool Congress lawmaker Abdur Rezzak Mollah, Suvendu Adhikary, Sovandeb Chattopadhyay, Churamoni Mahato, Tapan Dasgupta, Siddiqullah Chowdhury and Asima Patra. Two retired IPS officers Abani Joardar and James Kujur, Gulam Rabbani, Bachchu Hansda, Jakir Hossain, Sandhyarani Tudu, Shaymal Santra and Rabindranath Ghosh are the other new inductions.
File pic of Mamata Banerjee with Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan.
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