Mamata Banerjee
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| Mamata Banerjee মমতা ব্যানার্জী | |
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| 8th Chief Minister of West Bengal | |
| Governor | M. K. Narayanan |
| Preceded by | Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee |
| Constituency | Bhabanipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 20 May 2011 | |
| Minister of Railways | |
| In office 22 May 2009 – 19 May 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Lalu Prasad Yadav |
| Succeeded by | Manmohan Singh |
| Member of Parliament | |
| In office 1991–2011 | |
| Preceded by | Biplab Dasgupta[1] |
| Succeeded by | Subrata Bakshi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 5 January 1955 Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Political party | Indian National Congress (1970–1997) Trinamool Congress (1997–present) |
| Residence | Harish Chatterjee Street,Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Alma mater | University of Calcutta Shri Shikshayatan College Jogamaya Devi College Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Law College |
| Profession | Politician Painter Poet |
| Religion | Hindu |
Mamata Banerjee (Bangla : মমতা ব্যানার্জী) (pronounced [mɔːmoːt̪ʰaː bɛːnaːrjiː]; born 5 January 1955)[2] is the 8th and current Chief Minister of West Bengal. She is the first woman to hold the office. Banerjee founded the party All India Trinamool Congress (AITMC or TMC) in 1997 and became its chairperson, after separating from the Indian National Congress.[3][4] She is usually called "Didi" (meaning elder sister in Bengali). In 2011 Banerjee pulled off a landslide victory for the TMC Congress alliance in West Bengal by defeating the world's longest-serving democratically-elected communist government, the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front government, bringing to an end 34 years of Left Front rule in the state.[5][6][7]Banerjee previously served as a Minister of Railways twice and is also the first women Railway Minister of India,[8] Minister of Coal, and Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Department of Youth Affairs and Sports and Women and Child Development in the cabinet of the Indian government.[9] She opposed forceful land acquisition for industrialisation by the then communist government in West Bengal for Special Economic Zones at the cost of agriculturalists and farmers.[10] In 2012, the Time magazine named her one of the "100 Most influential People in the World".[11]In September 2012 Bloomberg Markets magazine listed her among the 50 most influential people in the world of finance.[12]
Early life and career [edit]
Banerjee was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata), West Bengal in a Bengali family[13] to Promileswar Banerjee and Gayetri Devi.[14] She grew up in alower middle class family, and her father died when she was young. Banerjee became involved with politics while still in school, joining the Congress (I) Party in West Bengal and serving in a variety of positions within the party and in other local political organisations. As a young woman in the 1970s, she quickly rose in the ranks[clarification needed] to become the general secretary of the state Mahila Congress (1976–80).[10]
Banerjee graduated with an honours degree in History from the Jogamaya Devi College, an undergraduate women's college in southern Kolkata.[15][16]Later she earned a master's degree in Islamic History from the University of Calcutta. This was followed by a degree in education from the Shri Shikshayatan College. She also earned a law degree from the Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Law College, Kolkata.[17]
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