Mamata Banerjee is the 11th 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. She is usually called "Didi" (meaning elder sister). In 2011 Banerjee pulled off a landslide victory for the TMC 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. Banerjee previously served as a Minister of Railways twice, 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. She opposed forceful land...
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Gayatri Goswami updated the Discussion
on Apr 26, 2013 , 12:47 pm
'Mamata Banerjee to be blamed for chit fund scam'
Another Saradha Group agent has attempted suicide now and the poor people are helpless about the fate of their money invested in the chit fund. But the biggest question is why Mamata Banerjee did not act in time. As per the reports, Market more »
Mamata: Worst CM ever
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Mamata Bannerjee! This is an open letter to you from a very very angry citizen of your backward state! You are not only insensitive, but also a mindless and careless head of the state. When that poor 22-year-old college student was killed by goons more »