Mamata Banerjee

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Mamata Banerjee
Official portrait, 2015
8th Chief Minister of West Bengal
Incumbent
Assumed office
20 May 2011 (2011-05-20)
Governor
Preceded byBuddhadeb Bhattacharjee
Additional ministries
Incumbent
Assumed office
20 May 2011 (2011-05-20)
Ministry and Departments
Preceded byBuddhadeb Bhattacharjee
Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office
3 October 2021 (2021-10-03)
Preceded bySovandeb Chattopadhyay
ConstituencyBhabanipur
Majority58,835[1][2][3]
In office
16 November 2011 (2011-11-16) – 2 May 2021 (2021-05-02)
Preceded bySubrata Bakshi
Succeeded bySovandeb Chattopadhyay
ConstituencyBhabanipur
Majority54,213 (2011)[4]
Chairperson of the All India Trinamool Congress
Incumbent
Assumed office
2001 (2001)
Preceded byAjit Kumar Panja
Union Ministry offices
Minister of Railways
In office
22 May 2009 (2009-05-22) – 19 May 2011 (2011-05-19)
Prime MinisterManmohan Singh
Preceded byLalu Prasad Yadav
Succeeded byDinesh Trivedi
In office
13 October 1999 (1999-10-13) – 15 March 2001 (2001-03-15)
Prime MinisterAtal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded byRam Naik
Succeeded byNitish Kumar
Minister of Coal
In office
9 January 2004 – 22 May 2004
Prime MinisterAtal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded byKaria Munda
Succeeded byShibu Soren
Minister of Mines
In office
9 January 2004 – 22 May 2004
Prime MinisterAtal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded byRamesh Bais (MOS (I/C))
Succeeded byShibu Soren
Minister of State for Human Resource Development
In office
1991–1993[5]
Prime MinisterP. V. Narasimha Rao
MinisterArjun Singh
1991—1993Departments in-charge for:
Preceded byBhagey Gobardhan[6][7]
Succeeded by
Cabinet Minister (without portfolio)[8]
In office
8 September 2003 – 8 January 2004[5]
Prime MinisterAtal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded byN. Gopalaswami Ayyangar
Succeeded byNatwar Singh
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
1991 (1991)–2011 (2011)
Preceded byBiplab Dasgupta
Succeeded bySubrata Bakshi
ConstituencyKolkata Dakshin, West Bengal
In office
1984 (1984)–1989 (1989)
Preceded bySomnath Chatterjee
Succeeded byMalini Bhattacharya
ConstituencyJadavpur, West Bengal
Personal details
Born (1955-01-05) 5 January 1955 (age 69)[9][10][11]
Calcutta, West Bengal, India (present-day Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
Political partyAll India Trinamool Congress
(1998 – present)
Other political
affiliations		Indian National Congress (1975 - 1998)
RelationsAbhishek Banerjee (nephew)
Residence(s)30-B, Harish Chatterjee Street, Kolkata
Alma materUniversity of Calcutta
Signature
Nickname(s)Didi (transl. elder sister)
Position Held
  • 1970–80: General-Secretary, Mahila Congress (I), West Bengal
  • 1978–81: Secretary, District Congress Committee (Indira) [D.C.C. (I)], Calcutta South
  • 1984: General-Secretary, All India Youth Congress (I)
  • 1985–87:Member, Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
  • 1987–88:Member, National Council, All India Youth Congress (I)Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Home AffairsMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Human Resource Development1988Member, Executive Committee, Congress Parliamentary Party [C.P.P. (I)]
  • 1989: Member, Executive Committee, Pradesh Congress Committee [P.C.C. (I)], West Bengal
  • 1990: President, Youth Congress, West Bengal
  • 1993–96: Member, Committee on Home Affairs
  • 1995–96:Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Home AffairsMember, Committee on Public Accounts
  • 1996–97:Member, Committee on Home AffairsMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Home Affairs
  • 1998–99: Chairman, Committee on Railways, Member of General Purposes CommitteeMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Home Affairs
  • 1999: Leader, All India Trinamool Congress Parliamentary Party, Lok SabhaMember, General Purposes Committee
  • 2001–2003: Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Industries
  • 8 September 2003 – 8 January 2004: Union Cabinet Minister (without any portfolio)
  • 2004: Member, Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law & Justice
  • 5 August 2006: Member, Committee on Home Affairs
  • 5 August 2007: Member, Committee on Home Affairs
  • 31 May 2009 – 19 July 2011: Leader, All India Trinamool Congress Parliamentary Party, Lok Sabha
As of 9 October 2011
Source: [1]
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Mamata Banerjee (Bengali pronunciation: [mɔmot̪a bɔnd̪ːopad̪d̪ʱae̯] ⓘ; born 5 January 1955) is an Indian politician who is serving as the eighth and current chief minister of the Indian state of West Bengal since 20 May 2011, the first woman to hold the office. Having served multiple times as a Union Cabinet Minister, Mamata Banerjee became the Chief Minister of West Bengal for the first time in 2011. She founded the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC or TMC) in 1998 after separating from the Indian National Congress, and became its second chairperson later in 2001. She often refers to herself as Didi (meaning, elder sister in Bengali).[12][13]

Banerjee previously served twice as Minister of Railways, the first woman to do so.[14] She is also the second female Minister of Coal, and Minister of Human Resource Development, Youth Affairs and Sports, Women and Child Development in the cabinet of the Indian government.[15] She rose to prominence after opposing the erstwhile land acquisition policies for industrialisation of the Communist-led government in West Bengal for Special Economic Zones at the cost of agriculturalists and farmers at Singur.[16] In 2011, Banerjee pulled off a landslide victory for the AITC alliance in West Bengal, defeating the 34-year-old Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front government, the world's longest-serving democratically elected communist-led government.[17][18][19]

She served as the member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Bhabanipur from 2011 to 2021. She contested the Nandigram assembly seat and lost to the BJP's Suvendu Adhikari in the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections,[20][a] though her party won a large majority of seats.[21] She is the third West Bengal Chief Minister to lose an election from her own constituency, after Prafulla Chandra Sen in 1967 and Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee in 2011. Mamata challenged the result of Nandigram Constituency in Calcutta High Court and the matter is sub judice.[22] She led her party to a landslide victory in the 2021 West Bengal assembly polls.[23][24][25] She got elected as member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly again from Bhabanipur constituency in the bypoll.[26] Currently India has only two female incumbent Chief Ministers; she is one of them.[citation needed]

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  11. ^ "Mamata is 5 years younger than official age". Business Line. 15 November 2017. Archived from the original on 10 June 2024. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  12. ^ "Mamata Banerjee's hard-hitting poem targets PM Modi's demonetisation decision, but fails to woo Netizens". The Indian Express. 12 November 2016. Archived from the original on 7 October 2017. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
  13. ^ Roy, Sandip (17 October 2014). "The 1.8 crore question: Is Mamata Banerjee India's most underrated artist?". Firstpost. Archived from the original on 7 October 2017. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
  14. ^ "Did You Know? Mamata Banerjee was India's first-ever Sports Minister". The Bridge. 4 March 2020. Archived from the original on 12 November 2022. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
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  17. ^ "India: Mamata Banerjee routs communists in West Bengal". BBC News. 13 May 2011. Archived from the original on 13 May 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
  18. ^ Achin, Kurt (11 May 2011). "India's West Bengal Set to End 34 Years of Communist Rule". VOA. Archived from the original on 12 November 2022. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
  19. ^ Biswas, Soutik (15 April 2011). "The woman taking on India's communists". BBC World News. Archived from the original on 15 April 2011. Retrieved 15 April 2011.
  20. ^ "Nandigram election result 2021: Suvendu Adhikari beats Mamata by 1736 votes". The Times of India. 2 May 2021. Archived from the original on 4 May 2021. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  21. ^ "Trinamool Congress wins big in Bengal and BJP scores less than half of what it aimed for". Business Insider India. 3 May 2021. Archived from the original on 2 August 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  22. ^ Rajaram, Prema (12 August 2021). "Calcutta HC adjourns Mamata Banerjee's petition against Nandigram election result till November 15". India Today. Archived from the original on 25 September 2021. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
  23. ^ Singh, Shiv Sahay (2 May 2021). "Mamata wins West Bengal but loses in Nandigram". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 12 November 2022. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  24. ^ Paul, Paramita (3 May 2021). "মমতা একা নন, বিধায়ক না হয়ে মুখ্যমন্ত্রী হওয়ার নজির অতীতেও রয়েছে এ দেশে" [Mamata is not alone, there is a precedent in this country to be the Chief Minister without being a MLA]. Sangbad Pratidin (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 12 November 2022. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  25. ^ Choudhury, Monishankar (12 May 2021). "২০২৪ সালে বিজেপি বিরোধী শিবিরের মুখ কি মমতাই?" [Is Mamata the face of the anti-BJP camp in 2024?]. Sangbad Pratidin (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 12 November 2022. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  26. ^ Singh, Shiv Sahay (3 October 2021). "Mamata Banerjee back in Bengal Assembly with Bhabanipur win". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Archived from the original on 11 January 2023. Retrieved 11 January 2023.


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