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{{Infobox government cabinet
| cabinet_type = Ministry
| cabinet_number = 10th
| jurisdiction = [[West Bengal]]
| flag =
| flag_border = 100px
| incumbent = 2001—2006
| image = BuddhadebBabu.jpg
| image_size =
| caption =
| date_formed = 10 May 2001
| date_dissolved = 8 May 2006
| government_head_title = [[List of chief ministers of West Bengal|Chief Minister]]
| government_head = [[Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee]]
| government_head_history =
| governor = [[Viren J. Shah]] [[Gopalkrishna Gandhi]]
| members_number = * [[Cabinet Ministers]]
* [[Minister of state]] (I/C){{efn|I/C stands for independent charge. It means that a minister can hold portfolios independently in a junior rank.}}
* Minister of state
| former_members_resigned =
| total_number =
| political_party = {{Color box|{{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}|border=darkgray}} '''[[Left Front (West Bengal)|Left Front]]'''
| legislature_status = [[Majority government|Majority]]
| opposition_cabinet =
| opposition_party = {{Color box|{{party color|All India Trinamool Congress}}|border=darkgray}} [[All India Trinamool Congress]]
| opposition_leader = [[Pankaj Banerjee]]
| election = [[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]
| last_election = [[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]
| legislature_term = [[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|13th Assembly]]
| budget =
| advice_and_consent1 =
| advice_and_consent2 = 
| incoming_formation =
| outgoing_formation =
| previous = [[First Bhattacharjee ministry]]
| successor = [[Third Bhattacharjee ministry]]
}}
{{Politics of India}}

[[Buddhadev Bhattacharya]] was sworn in as the chief minister of West Bengal in the sixth Left Front government along with other 47 ministers.<ref name="rediff">{{cite web|url=https://m.rediff.com/news/2001/may/18wb.htm|website=rediff.com|title=48-member Left Front ministry takes oath in WB|access-date=2022-01-10}}</ref> Members of the [[Left Front (West Bengal)|Left Front]] Ministry in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]] as in May 2006 were as follows:

==Cabinet ministers==
* [[Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee]] - Chief Minister; Home (Police), Information and Cultural Affairs, Science and Technology
*[[Nirupam Sen (politician)|Nirupam Sen]] - Industry, Public Undertakings & Industrial Reconstruction, Planning & Development
* [[Surjya Kanta Mishra|Dr Surjya Kanta Mishra]] - Health & Family welfare, Rural Development, Panchayat
* [[Mohammed Amin (politician)|Mohammed Amin]] - Labour
* [[Asim Dasgupta]] - Finance
* [[Subhas Chakraborty]] - Transport, Sports, Hooghly River Bridge Commissioners
* [[Mohammed Salim (politician)|Mohammed Salim]] - Minorities Development & Welfare, Self-employment Scheme for the Urban Unemployed, Youth Services, Technical Education
*[[Kamal Guha]] - Agriculture
*[[Biswanath Chowdhury]] - Social Welfare, Jails
* [[Kiranmoy Nanda]] - Fisheries, Aquaculture, Aquatic Resources, Harbours
* Nandagopal Bhattacharjee - Small Irrigation, Water Investigation Development
* Prabodh Sinha - Parliamentary Affairs & Excise
*[[Kalimuddin Shams]] - Food & Supplies
* Amar Chaudhuri - Public Works
* [[Gautam Deb]] - Housing & Public Health and Engineering
*Kanti Biswas - School Education, Madrasah
*Naren De - Cooperation & Consumer Affairs
*Manabendra Mukherjee - Information Technology & Environment
*[[Ashok Bhattacharya]] - Municipal Affairs, Urban Development, Town and Country Planning
*[[Dinesh Chandra Dakua]] - Tourism
* [[Sailen Sarkar]] - Food Processing and Horticulture
*Satyasadhan Chakravarty - Higher Education
* Amarendralal Roy - Irrigation and Waterways
*[[Abdur Razzak Molla]] - Land and Land Reforms
* [[Mrinal Banerjee]] - Power
*[[Bansa Gopal Chowdhury]] - Cottage & Small Scale Industry
*Nisith Adhikary - Law and Judicial Department
* Upen Kisku - Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes Welfare
*[[Anisur Rahman (politician, born 1952)|Anisur Rahman]] - Animal Resources Development
*Jogesh Chandra Barman - Forests
*Nemai Mal - Library Services
*Nandarani Dal - Mass Education
* [[Chhaya Ghosh]] - Agriculture Marketing
* [[Hafiz Alam Sairani]] - Relief

==Ministers of State==
*Pratim Chatterjee - Fire Services
*Dhiren Sen - Land and Land Reforms, Panchayats and Rural Development
*[[Susanta Ghosh]] - Labour, Employment Exchange, Employees’ State Insurance (ESI)
* [[Dasrath Tirkey]] - Public Works
*Maheswar Murmu - Pashchimanchal Development and Forests
*Anju Kar - Municipal Affairs
* Bilasibala Sahis - Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and OBC
*Ganesh Chandra Mondal - Irrigation & Waterways
*Srikumar Mukherjee - Civil Defence
* [[Kanti Ganguly]] - Sunderbans Development Affairs
*Pratyush Mukherjee - Health & Family Welfare
*Narayan Biswas - Transport
* Nayan Sarkar - Refugee Rehabilitation
* Ibha Dey - School Education

==See also==
*[[Third Bhattacharjee ministry]]
*[[Left Front (West Bengal)]]

== Notes ==
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==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:West Bengal ministries|Bhattacharjee II]]
[[Category:Indian ministries established in 2001|Bhattacharjee II]]
[[Category:Indian ministries disestablished in 2006|Bhattacharjee II]]
[[Category:Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee]]

Second Bhattacharjee ministry - Revision history

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