Mamata Banerjee

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; 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: [ ]

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).

Banerjee previously served twice as Minister of Railways, the first woman to do so. 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. 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. 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, in the process.

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, though her party won a large majority of seats. 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. She led her party to a landslide victory in the 2021 West Bengal assembly polls. She got elected as member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly again from Bhabanipur constituency in the bypoll. She is the only female incumbent Chief Minister in India at present.

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