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Mamata Banerjee (Bengali pronunciation: [mɔmot̪a bɔnd̪ːopad̪d̪ʱae̯] ⓘ; born 5 January 1955 [a]) 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.
Sworn in on 20 May 2011, Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee is West Bengal's incumbent chief minister, the first woman to hold the office. She was subsequently voted to power in 2016 and 2021 assembly elections. She is the one of the two female incumbent chief minister in India at present (as per 2024).
The 21st Council of Ministers for the state of West Bengal was formed under the leadership of Mamata Banerjee. She was sworn in as Chief Minister of West Bengal for the third time on 5 May 2021. The remaining council of ministers was sworn in on 10 May 2021. [1] [2] [3] [4
Mamata Banerjee wrote a Bengali book with the same title. [99] A song was also recorded with the same title. [100] [101] The slogan Joy Bangla is also officially used by Mamata Banerjee and by her party Trinamool Congress as part of attempt to create a territorial and ethnolinguistic identity for Bengalis in India.
The doctors and nurses echoed similar sentiments, while Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expected death sentence. [67] The Bharatiya Janata Party IT head Amit Malviya also criticized life imprisonment given to Roy, adding that verdict must be appealed and that the TMC Government should stop shielding the perpetrators. Malviya also added that the ...
In May 2022, former TMC MLA and minister in the Mamata Banerjee's cabinet, Upendra Nath Biswas who has previously served as the CBI officer, investigating several scams, revealed about the SSC scam through his Facebook post. [6]
The incumbent All India Trinamool Congress government led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee won re-election by a large margin, despite opinion polls generally predicting a close race against the Bharatiya Janata Party, which became the Official Opposition but significantly underperformed expectations, winning 77 seats.
This slogan was coined by All India Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee as their "war cry" before 2009 General election of India. [3] [4] [5] and eventually became the signature slogan of Banerjee and her party. The three words of the slogan "Ma", "Mati" and "Manush" which mean "Mother", "(Mother)land" and "People" respectively were three ...