Mamata Banerjee information

Mamata Banerjee
Mamata Banerjee
	Official portrait, 2015
8th Chief Minister of West Bengal
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 20 May 2011
Governor	M. K. Narayanan; D. Y. Patil; Keshari Nath Tripathi; Jagdeep Dhankhar; La. Ganesan; C. V. Ananda Bose;
Cabinet	Banerjee ministry - III; Banerjee ministry - II; Banerjee ministry - I;
Preceded by	Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
Ministry and Departments	Incumbent
Additional ministries
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 20 May 2011
Ministry and Departments	Home & Hill Affairs; Personnel & Administrative Reforms; Finance & Excise; Planning; Statistics Program Implementation; Health and Family Welfare; Land and Land Reforms; Refugee and Rehabilitation; Information & Cultural Affairs; Minority Affairs & Madrassah Education;
Preceded by	Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 3 October 2021
Preceded by	Sovandeb Chattopadhyay
Constituency	Bhabanipur
Majority	58,835
	In office; 16 November 2011 – 2 May 2021
Preceded by	Subrata Bakshi
Succeeded by	Sovandeb Chattopadhyay
Constituency	Bhabanipur
Majority	54,213 (2011)
Chairperson of the All India Trinamool Congress
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 2001
Preceded by	Ajit Kumar Panja
Prime Minister
Union Ministry offices
Minister of Railways
	In office; 22 May 2009 – 19 May 2011
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Preceded by	Lalu Prasad Yadav
Succeeded by	Dinesh Trivedi
	In office; 13 October 1999 – 15 March 2001
Prime Minister	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded by	Ram Naik
Succeeded by	Nitish Kumar
Minister of Coal
	In office; 9 January 2004 – 22 May 2004
Prime Minister	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded by	Karia Munda
Succeeded by	Shibu Soren
Minister of Mines
	In office; 9 January 2004 – 22 May 2004
Prime Minister	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded by	Ramesh Bais (MOS (I/C))
Succeeded by	Shibu Soren
Minister of State for Human Resource Development
	In office; 1991–1993
Prime Minister	P. V. Narasimha Rao
Minister	Arjun Singh
1991—1993	Departments in-charge for: Youth Affairs and Sports; Woman and Child Development;
Preceded by	Bhagey Gobardhan
Succeeded by	Mukul Wasnik; (Youth Affairs and Sports); Basavarajeshwari; (Women and Child Development);
Cabinet Minister (without portfolio)
	In office; 8 September 2003 – 8 January 2004
Prime Minister	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded by	N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar
Succeeded by	Natwar Singh
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
	In office; 1991–2011
Preceded by	Biplab Dasgupta
Succeeded by	Subrata Bakshi
Constituency	Kolkata Dakshin, West Bengal
	In office; 1984–1989
Preceded by	Somnath Chatterjee
Succeeded by	Malini Bhattacharya
Constituency	Jadavpur, West Bengal
Personal details
Born	5 January 1955 (age 69); Calcutta, West Bengal, India (present-day Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
Political party	All India Trinamool Congress; (1998 – present)
Other political; affiliations	Indian National Congress (1975 - 1998)
Relations	Abhishek Banerjee (nephew)
Residence(s)	30-B, Harish Chatterjee Street, Kolkata
Alma mater	University of Calcutta (BA, MA, BEd, LLB)
Signature
Website	AITC official
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 2011Source: [1]

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 is often referred to 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] She is the only female incumbent Chief Minister in India at present.

^ "Election Commission of India". results.eci.gov.in. Archived from the original on 3 October 2021. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
^ "Election Commission of India". results.eci.gov.in. Archived from the original on 3 October 2021. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
^ "Election Commission of India". results.eci.gov.in. Archived from the original on 3 October 2021. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
^ "Bhowanipore bypoll: Mamata Banerjee breaks her own record". The Telegraph. 4 October 2021. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Chief Minister's Office – Government of West Bengal". wbcmo.gov.in. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
^ "tcpd/cabinet_data". GitHub. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
^ "Sote103-('C) – Cabinet Secretariat" (PDF). Retrieved 26 September 2021.
^ "Vajpayee reinducts Mamata Banerjee as cabinet minister without portfolio". India Today. 22 September 2003.
^ "Mamata Banerjee's Biodata in Lok Sabha's Document". loksabha.nic.in. Archived from the original on 25 May 2012.
^ "Mamata Banerjee five years younger than official records". The Times of India. 26 January 2012. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
^ "Mamata is 5 years younger than official age". Business Line. 15 November 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
^ "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.
^ 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.
^ "Did You Know? Mamata Banerjee was India's first-ever Sports Minister". The Bridge. 4 March 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
^ "Detailed Profile=Km. Mamata Banerjee". Government of India. Archived from the original on 26 August 2010. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
^ Yardley, Jim (14 January 2011). "The Eye of an Indian Hurricane, Eager to Topple a Political Establishment". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 13 January 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
^ "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.
^ Achin, Kurt (11 May 2011). "India's West Bengal Set to End 34 Years of Communist Rule". VOA. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
^ 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.
^ "Nandigram election result 2021: Suvendu Adhikari beats Mamata by 1736 votes". The Times of India. 2 May 2021. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
^ "Trinamool Congress wins big in Bengal and BJP scores less than half of what it aimed for". Business Insider India. 3 May 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
^ Rajaram, Prema (12 August 2021). "Calcutta HC adjourns Mamata Banerjee's petition against Nandigram election result till November 15". India Today. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
^ Singh, Shiv Sahay (2 May 2021). "Mamata wins West Bengal but loses in Nandigram". The Hindu. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
^ 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). Retrieved 22 October 2021.
^ 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). Retrieved 22 October 2021.
^ Singh, Shiv Sahay (3 October 2021). "Mamata Banerjee back in Bengal Assembly with Bhabanipur win". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 11 January 2023.

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[Constituencywise-1] "Election Commission of India". results.eci.gov.in. Archived from the original on 3 October 2021. Retrieved 3 October 2021.

[Roundwise-2] "Election Commission of India". results.eci.gov.in. Archived from the original on 3 October 2021. Retrieved 3 October 2021.

[partywise-3] "Election Commission of India". results.eci.gov.in. Archived from the original on 3 October 2021. Retrieved 3 October 2021.

[4] "Bhowanipore bypoll: Mamata Banerjee breaks her own record". The Telegraph. 4 October 2021. Retrieved 4 October 2021.

[wbcmo-5] "Chief Minister's Office – Government of West Bengal". wbcmo.gov.in. Retrieved 24 September 2021.

[6] "tcpd/cabinet_data". GitHub. Retrieved 26 September 2021.

[7] "Sote103-('C) – Cabinet Secretariat" (PDF). Retrieved 26 September 2021.

[8] "Vajpayee reinducts Mamata Banerjee as cabinet minister without portfolio". India Today. 22 September 2003.

[9] "Mamata Banerjee's Biodata in Lok Sabha's Document". loksabha.nic.in. Archived from the original on 25 May 2012.

[10] "Mamata Banerjee five years younger than official records". The Times of India. 26 January 2012. Retrieved 17 September 2021.

[11] "Mamata is 5 years younger than official age". Business Line. 15 November 2017. 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. Retrieved 9 December 2021.

[15] "Detailed Profile=Km. Mamata Banerjee". Government of India. Archived from the original on 26 August 2010. Retrieved 11 August 2010.

[nyt-16] Yardley, Jim (14 January 2011). "The Eye of an Indian Hurricane, Eager to Topple a Political Establishment". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 13 January 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2011.

[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. Retrieved 9 December 2021.

[BBC-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. Retrieved 7 May 2021.

[22] "Trinamool Congress wins big in Bengal and BJP scores less than half of what it aimed for". Business Insider India. 3 May 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.

[23] Rajaram, Prema (12 August 2021). "Calcutta HC adjourns Mamata Banerjee's petition against Nandigram election result till November 15". India Today. Retrieved 9 December 2021.

[24] Singh, Shiv Sahay (2 May 2021). "Mamata wins West Bengal but loses in Nandigram". The Hindu. Retrieved 11 July 2021.

[pratidin-25] 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). Retrieved 22 October 2021.

[2024.-26] 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). Retrieved 22 October 2021.

[27] Singh, Shiv Sahay (3 October 2021). "Mamata Banerjee back in Bengal Assembly with Bhabanipur win". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 11 January 2023.

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