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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was born on 5 January 1955 in Kolkata. Complete Mamta Bandyopadhyay of Mamata Banerjee. His father Promileshwar Banerjee was a freedom fighter who died due to lack of treatment.
Mamta Banerjee had entered politics at the age of just 15. While studying at Yogmaya Devi College, he founded the Student Council Unions, the student wing of the Congress (I) party, which defeated the All India Democratic Students Organization affiliated to the Samajwadi Ekta Kendra. Subsequently, Banerjee held various positions in the Congress (I) party in West Bengal, within the party and in other local political organizations. The State Youth Congress, under the leadership of Mamata Banerjee, organized a protest march to the Writers’ Building in Calcutta on 21 July 1993 against the state’s communist government. Their demand was that the voter ID card be made the only document required for voting to prevent CPM’s “scientific rigging”.
In the 1984 general elections, Mamata Banerjee became India’s youngest parliamentarian from West Bengal and also served as the general secretary of the All India Youth Congress. In 1997, due to differences in political views with the then West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee President Somendra Nath Mitra, Mamata Banerjee left the Congress party in West Bengal and founded the All India Trinamool Congress. In 1989, Ms. Banerjee lost her seat due to the anti-Congress wave, but in the 1991 general election, Mamata Banerjee came back again and became the Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Youth Affairs and Sports and Women and Child Development. Became Union Minister of State. Mamta retained her seat in the general elections of 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004 and 2009. In the year 1999, Mamata Banerjee joined the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government and was given the charge of Railways Minister.
After the Tehelka expose in 2001, Mamata Banerjee quit the NDA cabinet and joined the Congress party in the 2001 elections in West Bengal. In January 2004, Mamata Banerjee was again back in the NDA cabinet and held the post of Minister of Coal and Mines until the 20 May 2004 general elections. In October 2005, Mamata Banerjee protested against land acquisition and violence against local farmers in West Bengal in the name of industrial development policy of the Buddhadeb Bhattacharya government. Mamata Banerjee faced setbacks in 2005, as her party lost power in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, and in 2006, the Trinamool Congress party was defeated in the West Bengal assembly elections due to the defections of many of its members.
Ahead of the 2009 parliamentary elections, Mamata Banerjee formed an alliance with the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) led by the Indian National Congress. Through this alliance Mamta won 26 seats and she joined the cabinet as Railway Minister and this was her second term. In the 2010 West Bengal municipal elections, the Trinamool Congress won the Kolkata Municipal Corporation by a margin of 62 seats. On 20 May 2011, Mamata Banerjee won with an absolute majority and was sworn in as the Chief Minister of West Bengal, ending the 34-year rule of the Communist Party of India.
One of his early decisions as chief minister was to return 400 acres of land to farmers caught up in a land acquisition dispute. He is also credited with resolving the long-standing “Gorkhaland issue”. Mamata Banerjee proposed reforms in the education and health sectors and the law and order situation in West Bengal and showed great interest in making people aware of the state’s history and culture. On 16 February 2012, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation sent a letter praising Mamata Banerjee and her government for not reporting a single polio case throughout the year. Mamata Banerjee launched a Facebook page to garner public support for APJ Abdul Kalam, who was then her party’s choice in the upcoming presidential election.
Mamata Banerjee was elected as the Chief Minister of West Bengal for the second time in the 2016 State Legislative Assembly elections. Mamata Banerjee’s party won 211 out of the total 293 seats.
Mamta Banerjee contested from Nadigram seat in the 2021 West Bengal assembly elections. In this election, he had to face defeat from BJP candidate Shubhendu Adhikari. After this he contested the by-election from Bhawanipur assembly seat where he won. After this he once again took oath as the Chief Minister of West Bengal.
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