Agency, Kolkata.
Published by: Amit Mandal
Updated Tue, 08 Mar 2022 09:27 PM IST
Summary
On the day of World Women’s Day, Mamta reshuffled the cabinet and announced to give independent charge of Finance Ministry to Chandrima.
While reshuffling her cabinet, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has made Chandrima Bhattacharya as Finance Minister with independent charge. State Transport Minister Firhad Hakim was again given the responsibility of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. Hakim, who has been holding this ministry in the Mamata Banerjee government for a decade, was kept away from this ministry during the cabinet formation in May last year.
Mamta had kept the Finance Ministry with her for the third time in the first cabinet formation of the government. Along with making her close friend Chandrima Bhattacharya, the Minister of Urban Development was also entrusted with the responsibility of Minister of State for Finance. Now on the day of World Women’s Day, Mamta reshuffled the cabinet and announced to give independent charge of Finance Ministry to Chandrima.
However, political gurus have not considered this pastime of Mamta as anything special. According to him, the BJP-led government in Assam had also made Ajanta Neog the first finance minister of the state on the occasion of Women’s Day last year. So far, there have been two women finance ministers in the central government as well. The first Indira Gandhi held the finance ministry from July 1969 to June 1970. After him, Nirmala Sitharaman is the Finance Minister in the Narendra Modi government since May 2019.
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While reshuffling her cabinet, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has made Chandrima Bhattacharya as Finance Minister with independent charge. State Transport Minister Firhad Hakim was again given the responsibility of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. Hakim, who has been holding this ministry in the Mamata Banerjee government for a decade, was kept away from this ministry during the cabinet formation in May last year.
Mamta had kept the Finance Ministry with her for the third time in the first cabinet formation of the government. Along with making her close friend Chandrima Bhattacharya, the Minister of Urban Development was also entrusted with the responsibility of Minister of State for Finance. Now on the day of World Women’s Day, Mamta reshuffled the cabinet and announced to give independent charge of Finance Ministry to Chandrima.
However, political gurus have not considered this pastime of Mamta as anything special. According to him, the BJP-led government in Assam had also made Ajanta Neog the first finance minister of the state on the occasion of Women’s Day last year. So far, there have been two women finance ministers in the central government as well. The first Indira Gandhi held the finance ministry from July 1969 to June 1970. After him, Nirmala Sitharaman is the Finance Minister in the Narendra Modi government since May 2019.