Mamata Banarjee
| Mamata Banerjee | |
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| 8th Chief Minister of West Bengal | |
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Assumed office 20 May 2011 |
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| Governor |
M. K. Narayanan D. Y. Patil Keshari Nath Tripathi |
| Preceded by | Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee |
| Minister of Railways | |
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In office 22 May 2009 – 19 May 2011 |
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| Prime Minister | Manmohan Singh |
| Preceded by | Lalu Prasad Yadav |
| Succeeded by | Dinesh Trivedi |
| Member of Parliament for Kolkata Dakshin |
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In office 1991–2011 |
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| Preceded by | Biplab Dasgupta |
| Succeeded by | Subrata Bakshi |
| Member of Parliament for Jadavpur |
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In office 1984–1989 |
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| Preceded by | Somnath Chatterjee |
| Succeeded by | Malini Bhattacharya |
| Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
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Assumed office 28 September 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Subrata Bakshi |
| Constituency | Bhabanipur |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Mamata Promileswar Banerjee 5 January 1955 Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Political party | All India Trinamool Congress (1997–present) |
| Other political affiliations |
Indian National Congress (Before 1997) |
| Residence | Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Alma mater | University of Calcutta |
| Profession | Politician |
| Website | Government website |
Mamata Banerjee ([mɔmɔt̪a bɔnd̪d̪oˈpad̪ʱˈae̯] also known as Didi, born 5 January 1955) is a poet, painter, miscellanist and an Indian politician who has been the 8th Chief Minister of West Bengal since 2011. She is the first woman to hold the office. She founded the party All India Trinamool Congress (AITMC or TMC) in 1997 after separating from the Indian National Congress, and became its chairperson. She is often referred to as Didi (meaning: elder sister in Hindi and Bengali).
Banerjee previously twice served as the Minister of Railways, the first woman to do so. She is also the first female Minister of Coal, and Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Youth Affairs, Sports, Women and Child Development in the cabinet of the Indian government. She rose to prominence after opposing the erstwhile land acquisition policies for industrialisation of the Communist government in West Bengal for Special Economic Zones at the cost of agriculturalists and farmers at Singur. In 2011 Banerjee pulled off a landslide victory for the TMC Congress 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 government in the process.
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