Second United Front Cabinet
Ministers sworn in

Minister
Portfolio(s)
Party
Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee
Chief Minister, Home (other than General Administration and Police)
Bangla Congress
Jyoti Basu
Deputy Chief Minister, Home (General Administration and Police)
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Kanailal Bhattacharya
Agriculture, Community Development
All India Forward Bloc
Sushil Kumar Dhara
Commerce and Industries
Bangla Congress
Charu Mihir Sarkar
Community Development
Bangla Congress
Renu Chakraborty
Co-operation and Social Welfare
Communist Party of India
Sambhu Ghosh
Cottage and Small Scale Industries
All India Forward Bloc
Satyapriya Roy
Education
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Krishna Chandra Halder
Excise
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Pravash Chandra Roy
Fisheries
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Sudhindranath Kumar
Food
Revolutionary Communist Party of India
Bhabatosh Soren
Forest
Bangla Congress
Nani Bhattacharya
Health
Revolutionary Socialist Party
Jyoti Bhushan Bhattacharya
Information and Public Relations
Workers Party of India
Biswanath Mukherjee
Irrigation and Waterways
Communist Party of India
Bhakti Bhushan Mandal
Judicial and Legislative
All India Forward Bloc
Krishnapada Ghosh
Labour
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Harekrishna Konar
Land and Land Revenue
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Somnath Lahiri
Local Self Government, Development and Planning
Communist Party of India
Bibhuti Dasgupta
Panchayat
Lok Sewak Sangh
Jatin Chakraborty
Parliamentary Affairs
Revolutionary Socialist Party
Golam Yazdani
Passport and Civil Defence
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Subodh Banerjee
Public Works
Socialist Unity Centre of India
Niranjan Sengupta
Refugee, Relief and Rehabilitation and Jails
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Abdur Rezzak Khan
Relief and Social Welfare
Communist Party of India
Deo Prakash Rai
Schedule Castes and Tribes Welfare
All India Gorkha League
M.A. Rasul
Transport
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Protiva Mukherjee
Roads (Minister of State)
Socialist Unity Centre of India
Ram Chatterjee
Sports (Minister of State)
Marxist Forward Bloc
Barada Mukutmoni
Tourism (Minister of State)
Bolshevik Party of India

Question: Who was the Food minister?
Answer: Sudhindranath Kumar of the Revolutionary Communist Party of India has occupied the Food Ministry.