West Bengal: Mamata Banerjee in office on weekend too

She is a workaholic. That was the common reaction in the Writers' Buildings on Saturday.Mamata Banerjee, the new chief minister of West Bengal, left her office early Saturday morning at 12.25 am, and was back in the secretariat at 11.50 am.Within hours of taking over as the first woman chief minister of West Bengal, Mamata on Friday afternoon walked from the Raj Bhavan to the Writers' Buildings to take over the reigns of the state.For the next few hours, she presided over the first cabinet meeting and addressed the
 media.Then, the CM held a detailed meeting with finance minister Amit Mitra on the financialhealth of the state, and finalised the portfolios of the new ministers.After the portfolios were announced at 12.15 am on Saturday morning, she left her office at 12.25 am. But she took everyone by surprise by returning to the office at 11:50 am.The new CM had directed all the ministers and senior officials of all the departments
 to attend office on Saturday, which otherwise is a holiday."I am back in office because I wanted to understand the intricacies of the state administration," she said. However, for Mitra the day started on a rather inauspicious note.The new finance minister was admitted to a private hospital in Kolkata around 1.30 am
after he complained of acute abdominal pain.The doctors have advised him a week's rest.

Mamata started her day with meeting higher education minister Bratya Basu and technical education minister Rabiranjan Chatterjee.