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class="vector-toc-link" href="#2004–2006_election_setbacks"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.2.4 2004–2006 election setbacks </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2004–2006_election_setbacks-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Singur,_Nandigram_and_other_movements" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Singur,_Nandigram_and_other_movements"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.3 Singur, Nandigram and other movements </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Singur,_Nandigram_and_other_movements-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Wrestler's_protest" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Wrestler's_protest"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.3.1 Wrestler's protest </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Wrestler's_protest-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Singur_protest" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Singur_protest"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.3.2 Singur protest </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Singur_protest-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Nandigram_protest" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Nandigram_protest"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.3.3 Nandigram protest </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Nandigram_protest-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2009–2011_electoral_progress" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2009–2011_electoral_progress"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.4 2009–2011 electoral progress </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2009–2011_electoral_progress-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Railway_Minister_(second_tenure),_2009–2011" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Railway_Minister_(second_tenure),_2009–2011"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.4.1 Railway Minister (second tenure), 2009–2011 </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Railway_Minister_(second_tenure),_2009–2011-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Chief_Minister_of_West_Bengal" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Chief_Minister_of_West_Bengal"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3 Chief Minister of West Bengal </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Chief_Minister_of_West_Bengal-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Chief Minister of West Bengal subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Chief_Minister_of_West_Bengal-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-First_term,_2011–16" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#First_term,_2011–16"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.1 First term, 2011–16 </div> </a> <ul id="toc-First_term,_2011–16-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Second_term,_2016–2021" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Second_term,_2016–2021"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.2 Second term, 2016–2021 </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Second_term,_2016–2021-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Third_term,_2021–present" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Third_term,_2021–present"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.3 Third term, 2021–present </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Third_term,_2021–present-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Controversies_and_criticism" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Controversies_and_criticism"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.4 Controversies and criticism </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Controversies_and_criticism-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-2024_RG_Kar_Hospital_Rape_Case" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2024_RG_Kar_Hospital_Rape_Case"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.4.1 2024 RG Kar Hospital Rape Case </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2024_RG_Kar_Hospital_Rape_Case-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sandeshkhali_incident" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sandeshkhali_incident"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.4.2 Sandeshkhali incident </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sandeshkhali_incident-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Personal_life_and_recognitions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Personal_life_and_recognitions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4 Personal life and recognitions </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Personal_life_and_recognitions-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Personal life and recognitions subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Personal_life_and_recognitions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-In_popular_culture" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#In_popular_culture"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.1 In popular culture </div> </a> <ul id="toc-In_popular_culture-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Works_in_literature_and_other_fields" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Works_in_literature_and_other_fields"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5 Works in literature and other fields </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Works_in_literature_and_other_fields-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 See also </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 Notes </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8 References </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9 Further reading </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10 External links </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" 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href="https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A7%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC" title="মমতা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় – Assamese" lang="as" hreflang="as" data-title="মমতা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়" data-language-autonym="অসমীয়া" data-language-local-name="Assamese" class="interlanguage-link-target">অসমীয়া</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A7%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC" title="মমতা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="মমতা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%80" title="ममता बनर्जी – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="ममता बनर्जी" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target">भोजपुरी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%B5" title="Момота Бондопадае – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Момота Бондопадае" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamata_Banerjee" title="Mamata Banerjee – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Mamata Banerjee" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dty mw-list-item"><a href="https://dty.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%80" title="ममता बनर्जी – Doteli" lang="dty" hreflang="dty" data-title="ममता बनर्जी" data-language-autonym="डोटेली" data-language-local-name="Doteli" class="interlanguage-link-target">डोटेली</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamata_Banerjee" title="Mamata Banerjee – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Mamata Banerjee" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%AC%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1_%CE%9C%CF%80%CE%AC%CE%BD%CE%B5%CF%81%CF%84%CE%B6%CE%B9" title="Μάματα Μπάνερτζι – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Μάματα Μπάνερτζι" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamata_Banerjee" title="Mamata Banerjee – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Mamata Banerjee" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamata_Banerjee" title="Mamata Banerjee – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Mamata Banerjee" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EB%A7%88%ED%83%80_%EB%B0%94%EB%84%A4%EB%A5%B4%EC%A7%80" title="마마타 바네르지 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="마마타 바네르지" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ha mw-list-item"><a href="https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamata_Banerjee" title="Mamata Banerjee – Hausa" lang="ha" hreflang="ha" data-title="Mamata Banerjee" data-language-autonym="Hausa" data-language-local-name="Hausa" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hausa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%80" title="ममता बनर्जी – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="ममता बनर्जी" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">हिन्दी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ig mw-list-item"><a href="https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamata_Banerjee" title="Mamata Banerjee – Igbo" lang="ig" hreflang="ig" data-title="Mamata Banerjee" data-language-autonym="Igbo" data-language-local-name="Igbo" class="interlanguage-link-target">Igbo</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamata_Banerjee" title="Mamata Banerjee – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Mamata Banerjee" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamata_Banerjee" title="Mamata Banerjee – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Mamata Banerjee" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%98%D7%94_%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%A8%D7%92%27%D7%99" title="ממאטה בנרג'י – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ממאטה בנרג'י" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamata_Banerjee" title="Mamata Banerjee – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Mamata Banerjee" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Jawa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%A4%E0%B2%BE_%E0%B2%AC%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%A8%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%9C%E0%B2%BF" title="ಮಮತಾ ಬ್ಯಾನರ್ಜಿ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಮಮತಾ ಬ್ಯಾನರ್ಜಿ" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target">ಕನ್ನಡ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mai mw-list-item"><a href="https://mai.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%80" title="ममता बनर्जी – Maithili" lang="mai" hreflang="mai" data-title="ममता बनर्जी" data-language-autonym="मैथिली" data-language-local-name="Maithili" class="interlanguage-link-target">मैथिली</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%A4_%E0%B4%AC%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%9C%E0%B4%BF" title="മമത ബാനർജി – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="മമത ബാനർജി" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target">മലയാളം</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%85%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%80" title="ममता बॅनर्जी – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="ममता बॅनर्जी" 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K. Narayanan">M. K. Narayanan</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/D._Y._Patil" title="D. Y. Patil">D. Y. Patil</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Keshari_Nath_Tripathi" title="Keshari Nath Tripathi">Keshari Nath Tripathi</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Jagdeep_Dhankhar" title="Jagdeep Dhankhar">Jagdeep Dhankhar</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/La._Ganesan" title="La. Ganesan">La. Ganesan</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/C._V._Ananda_Bose" title="C. V. Ananda Bose">C. V. Ananda Bose</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Buddhadeb_Bhattacharjee" title="Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee">Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee</a> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> <table class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="; ; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" style="line-height:normal; padding:0.2em; ;"><div style="text-align: center; padding: 0 0.4em; margin: 0 3.3em">Additional ministries</div></th> </tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><div class="skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="width:100%; margin:0; color: black; background-color: lavender"><a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">Incumbent</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">Assumed office 20 May 2011 (2011-05-20)</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Third_Banerjee_ministry" title="Third Banerjee ministry">Ministry and Departments</a></th><td class="infobox-data"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Department_of_Home_and_Hill_Affairs" title="Department of Home and Hill Affairs">Home & Hill Affairs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Department_of_Personnel_%26_Administrative_Reforms_(West_Bengal)" title="Department of Personnel & Administrative Reforms (West Bengal)">Personnel & Administrative Reforms</a></li> <li>Finance & Excise</li> <li>Planning</li> <li>Statistics Program Implementation</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Health_%26_Family_Welfare_(West_Bengal)" title="Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (West Bengal)">Health and Family Welfare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Land_%26_Land_Reforms_(West_Bengal)" title="Ministry of Land & Land Reforms (West Bengal)">Land and Land Reforms</a></li> <li>Refugee and Rehabilitation</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Information_%26_Cultural_Affairs_(West_Bengal)" title="Ministry of Information & Cultural Affairs (West Bengal)">Information & Cultural Affairs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Minority_Affairs_%26_Madrassah_Education_(West_Bengal)" title="Ministry of Minority Affairs & Madrassah Education (West Bengal)">Minority Affairs & Madrassah Education</a></li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Buddhadeb_Bhattacharjee" title="Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee">Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly" title="West Bengal Legislative Assembly">Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><div class="skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="width:100%; margin:0; color: black; background-color: lavender"><a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">Incumbent</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">Assumed office 3 October 2021 (2021-10-03)</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sovandeb_Chattopadhyay" title="Sovandeb Chattopadhyay">Sovandeb Chattopadhyay</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bhabanipur,_West_Bengal_Assembly_constituency" title="Bhabanipur, West Bengal Assembly constituency">Bhabanipur</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Majority</th><td class="infobox-data">58,835<a href="#cite_note-Constituencywise-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-Roundwise-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-partywise-3">[3]</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office 16 November 2011 (2011-11-16) – 2 May 2021 (2021-05-02)</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Subrata_Bakshi" title="Subrata Bakshi">Subrata Bakshi</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sovandeb_Chattopadhyay" title="Sovandeb Chattopadhyay">Sovandeb Chattopadhyay</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bhabanipur,_West_Bengal_Assembly_constituency" title="Bhabanipur, West Bengal Assembly constituency">Bhabanipur</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Majority</th><td class="infobox-data">54,213 (2011)<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/All_India_Trinamool_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="All India Trinamool Congress">Chairperson of the All India Trinamool Congress</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><div class="skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="width:100%; margin:0; color: black; background-color: lavender"><a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">Incumbent</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">Assumed office 2001 (2001)</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ajit_Kumar_Panja" title="Ajit Kumar Panja">Ajit Kumar Panja</a> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> <table class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="; ; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" style="line-height:normal; padding:0.2em; border:1px dashed purple;;"><div style="text-align: center; padding: 0 0.4em; margin: 0 3.3em">Union Ministry offices </div></th> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Railways_(India)" title="Minister of Railways (India)">Minister of Railways</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office 22 May 2009 (2009-05-22) – 19 May 2011 (2011-05-19)</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Prime Minister</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Manmohan_Singh" title="Manmohan Singh">Manmohan Singh</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lalu_Prasad_Yadav" title="Lalu Prasad Yadav">Lalu Prasad Yadav</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Dinesh_Trivedi" title="Dinesh Trivedi">Dinesh Trivedi</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office 13 October 1999 (1999-10-13) – 15 March 2001 (2001-03-15)</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Prime Minister</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Atal_Bihari_Vajpayee" title="Atal Bihari Vajpayee">Atal Bihari Vajpayee</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ram_Naik" title="Ram Naik">Ram Naik</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Nitish_Kumar" title="Nitish Kumar">Nitish Kumar</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Coal" title="Ministry of Coal">Minister of Coal</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office 9 January 2004 – 22 May 2004</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Prime Minister</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Atal_Bihari_Vajpayee" title="Atal Bihari Vajpayee">Atal Bihari Vajpayee</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Karia_Munda" class="mw-redirect" title="Karia Munda">Karia Munda</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Shibu_Soren" title="Shibu Soren">Shibu Soren</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Mines_(India)" title="Ministry of Mines (India)">Minister of Mines</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office 9 January 2004 – 22 May 2004</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Prime Minister</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Atal_Bihari_Vajpayee" title="Atal Bihari Vajpayee">Atal Bihari Vajpayee</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ramesh_Bais" title="Ramesh Bais">Ramesh Bais</a> (<a href="/wiki/Category:Union_ministers_of_state_of_India_with_independent_charge" title="Category:Union ministers of state of India with independent charge">MOS (I/C)</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Shibu_Soren" title="Shibu Soren">Shibu Soren</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Union_Council_of_Ministers#Ranking" title="Union Council of Ministers">Minister of State</a> <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Education_(India)" title="Ministry of Education (India)">for Human Resource Development</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office 1991–1993<a href="#cite_note-wbcmo-5">[5]</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Prime Minister</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/P._V._Narasimha_Rao" title="P. V. Narasimha Rao">P. V. Narasimha Rao</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Minister</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Arjun_Singh_(politician,_born_1930)" class="mw-redirect" title="Arjun Singh (politician, born 1930)">Arjun Singh</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style>1991—1993</th><td class="infobox-data">Departments in-charge for:<div><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Youth_Affairs_and_Sports#History" title="Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports">Youth Affairs and Sports</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Women_and_Child_Development#History" title="Ministry of Women and Child Development">Woman and Child Development</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bhagey_Gobardhan" title="Bhagey Gobardhan">Bhagey Gobardhan</a><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mukul_Wasnik" title="Mukul Wasnik">Mukul Wasnik</a> (Youth Affairs and Sports)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Basavarajeshwari" title="Basavarajeshwari">Basavarajeshwari</a> (Women and Child Development)</li></ul></div></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Minister_without_portfolio#India" title="Minister without portfolio">Cabinet Minister (without portfolio)</a><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office 8 September 2003 – 8 January 2004<a href="#cite_note-wbcmo-5">[5]</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Prime Minister</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Atal_Bihari_Vajpayee" title="Atal Bihari Vajpayee">Atal Bihari Vajpayee</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/N._Gopalaswami_Ayyangar" title="N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar">N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Natwar_Singh" title="Natwar Singh">Natwar Singh</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr> </tbody></table></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament,_Lok_Sabha" title="Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha">Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office 1991 (1991)–2011 (2011)</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Biplab_Dasgupta" title="Biplab Dasgupta">Biplab Dasgupta</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Subrata_Bakshi" title="Subrata Bakshi">Subrata Bakshi</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kolkata_Dakshin_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency)">Kolkata Dakshin</a>, <a href="/wiki/West_Bengal" title="West Bengal">West Bengal</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office 1984 (1984)–1989 (1989)</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Somnath_Chatterjee" title="Somnath Chatterjee">Somnath Chatterjee</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Malini_Bhattacharya" title="Malini Bhattacharya">Malini Bhattacharya</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jadavpur_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jadavpur (Lok Sabha constituency)">Jadavpur</a>, <a href="/wiki/West_Bengal" title="West Bengal">West Bengal</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"> (1955-01-05) 5 January 1955 (age 69)<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a><a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> <a href="/wiki/Calcutta" class="mw-redirect" title="Calcutta">Calcutta</a>, <a href="/wiki/West_Bengal" title="West Bengal">West Bengal</a>, India (present-day <a href="/wiki/Kolkata" title="Kolkata">Kolkata</a>, <a href="/wiki/West_Bengal" title="West Bengal">West Bengal</a>, India)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/All_India_Trinamool_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="All India Trinamool Congress">All India Trinamool Congress</a> (1998 – present)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other political affiliations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> (1975 - 1998)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Abhishek_Banerjee_(politician)" title="Abhishek Banerjee (politician)">Abhishek Banerjee</a> (nephew)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Residence(s)</th><td class="infobox-data label">30-B, Harish Chatterjee Street, <a href="/wiki/Kolkata" title="Kolkata">Kolkata</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Calcutta" title="University of Calcutta">University of Calcutta</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Signature</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/File:Mamata_Banerjee_Signature.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Mamata Banerjee's signature"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Mamata_Banerjee_Signature.png/128px-Mamata_Banerjee_Signature.png" decoding="async" width="128" height="36" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Mamata_Banerjee_Signature.png/192px-Mamata_Banerjee_Signature.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Mamata_Banerjee_Signature.png/256px-Mamata_Banerjee_Signature.png 2x" data-file-width="298" data-file-height="83" /></a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nickname(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Didi (<abbr title="translation">transl.</abbr> elder sister)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold; background-color:#56FF;text-align:center;"><div style="margin: 0 4em">Position Held</div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 1970–80: General-Secretary, Mahila Congress (I), West Bengal </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 1978–81: Secretary, District Congress Committee (Indira) [D.C.C. (I)], Calcutta South </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 1984: General-Secretary, All India Youth Congress (I) </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 1985–87:Member, Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 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)] </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 1989: Member, Executive Committee, Pradesh Congress Committee [P.C.C. (I)], West Bengal </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 1990: President, Youth Congress, West Bengal </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 1993–96: Member, Committee on Home Affairs </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 1995–96:Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Home AffairsMember, Committee on Public Accounts </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 1996–97:Member, Committee on Home AffairsMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Home Affairs </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 1998–99: Chairman, Committee on Railways, Member of General Purposes CommitteeMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Home Affairs </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 1999: Leader, All India Trinamool Congress Parliamentary Party, Lok SabhaMember, General Purposes Committee </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 2001–2003: Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Industries </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 8 September 2003 – 8 January 2004: Union Cabinet Minister (without any portfolio) </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 2004: Member, Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law & Justice </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 5 August 2006: Member, Committee on Home Affairs </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 5 August 2007: Member, Committee on Home Affairs </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 31 May 2009 – 19 July 2011: Leader, All India Trinamool Congress Parliamentary Party, Lok Sabha </li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div>As of 9 October 2011</div>Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://wbcmo.gov.in/profile.aspx">[1]</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist 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constituency">Bhabhanipur</a> (2011-present)</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Trinamool_Congress" title="Trinamool Congress">Leader of Trinamool Congress</a> (2001-present)</li></ul> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Personal_life_and_recognitions">Recognitions</a></li></ul> <hr /> Electoral Performance <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Trinamool_Congress#General_election_results" title="Trinamool Congress">General elections</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1999_Indian_general_election" title="1999 Indian general election">1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_Indian_general_election" title="2004 Indian general election">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_Indian_general_election" title="2009 Indian general election">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Indian_general_election" title="2014 Indian general election">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Indian_general_election" title="2019 Indian general election">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Indian_general_election" title="2024 Indian general election">2024</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly" title="West Bengal Legislative Assembly">Assembly elections</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2011_West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election">2021</a></li></ul></li></ul> <hr /> Early Political Movements <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tata_Nano_Singur_controversy" title="Tata Nano Singur controversy">Singur land controversy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nandigram_violence" title="Nandigram violence">Nandigram violence</a></li></ul> <hr /> <div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Tenure as Chief Minister</div> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Government_of_West_Bengal#Council_of_Ministers" title="Government of West Bengal">State Council of Ministers</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Banerjee_ministry" title="First Banerjee ministry">First</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Banerjee_ministry" title="Second Banerjee ministry">Second</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Banerjee_ministry" title="Third Banerjee ministry">Third</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Naxalite%E2%80%93Maoist_insurgency#Violence_in_West_Bengal" title="Naxalite–Maoist insurgency">Naxalite–Maoist insurgency in West Bengal</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gorkhaland_Territorial_Administration" title="Gorkhaland Territorial Administration">Gorkhaland Territorial Administration</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/West_Bengal_Police" title="West Bengal Police">New Police Commissionerates</a> <ul><li><a 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title="Kanyashree Prakalpa">Kanyashree Prakalpa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Didi_Ke_Bolo" title="Didi Ke Bolo">Didi Ke Bolo</a></li></ul> <hr /> <div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Controversies</div> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2013_Kamduni_gang_rape_and_murder_case" title="2013 Kamduni gang rape and murder case">2013 Kamduni gang rape and murder case</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suzette_Jordan" title="Suzette Jordan">2012 Suzette Jordan gangrape case</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Birbhum_gang_rape_case" title="2014 Birbhum gang rape case">2014 Birbhum gang rape case</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Kandhamal_gang_rape_case" title="2015 Kandhamal gang rape case">2015 Kandhamal gang rape case</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saradha_Group_financial_scandal" title="Saradha Group financial scandal">Saradha Scam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rose_Valley_financial_scandal" title="Rose Valley financial scandal">Rose Valley scandal</a></li> <li><a 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Having served multiple times as a <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_Minister_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabinet Minister (India)">Union Cabinet Minister</a>, Mamata Banerjee became the <a href="/wiki/Chief_Minister_of_West_Bengal" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Minister of West Bengal">Chief Minister of West Bengal</a> for the first time in 2011. She founded the <a href="/wiki/All_India_Trinamool_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="All India Trinamool Congress">All India Trinamool Congress</a> (AITC or TMC) in 1998 after separating from the <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a>, and became its second chairperson later in 2001. She often refers to herself as Didi (meaning, elder sister in <a href="/wiki/Bengali_language" title="Bengali language">Bengali</a>).<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> Banerjee previously served twice as <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Railways_(India)" title="Minister of Railways (India)">Minister of Railways</a>, the first woman to do so.<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> She is also the second female <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Coal" title="Ministry of Coal">Minister of Coal</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Education" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Education">Minister of Human Resource Development</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Youth_Affairs_and_Sports" title="Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports">Youth Affairs and Sports</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Women_and_Child_Development" title="Ministry of Women and Child Development">Women and Child Development</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Union_Council_of_Ministers_of_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Union Council of Ministers of India">cabinet</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_India" title="Government of India">Indian government</a>.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> She rose to prominence after opposing the erstwhile land acquisition policies for <a href="/wiki/Industrialisation" title="Industrialisation">industrialisation</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Communist" class="mw-redirect" title="Communist">Communist</a>-led government in West Bengal for <a href="/wiki/Special_Economic_Zones" class="mw-redirect" title="Special Economic Zones">Special Economic Zones</a> at the cost of agriculturalists and farmers at <a href="/wiki/Singur" title="Singur">Singur</a>.<a href="#cite_note-nyt-16">[16]</a> In <a href="/wiki/2011_West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election">2011</a>, Banerjee pulled off a landslide victory for the AITC alliance in West Bengal, defeating the 34-year-old <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India_(Marxist)" title="Communist Party of India (Marxist)">Communist Party of India (Marxist)</a>-led <a href="/wiki/Left_Front_(West_Bengal)" title="Left Front (West Bengal)">Left Front</a> government, the world's longest-serving democratically elected communist-led government.<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a><a href="#cite_note-BBC-19">[19]</a> She served as the member of <a href="/wiki/West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly" title="West Bengal Legislative Assembly">West Bengal Legislative Assembly</a> from <a href="/wiki/Bhabanipur,_West_Bengal_Assembly_constituency" title="Bhabanipur, West Bengal Assembly constituency">Bhabanipur</a> from 2011 to 2021. She contested the <a href="/wiki/Nandigram_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nandigram (Vidhan Sabha constituency)">Nandigram</a> assembly seat and lost to the <a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Suvendu_Adhikari" title="Suvendu Adhikari">Suvendu Adhikari</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2021_West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election">2021 West Bengal Assembly elections</a>,<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a><a href="#cite_note-details-21">[a]</a> though her party won a large majority of seats.<a href="#cite_note-22">[21]</a> She is the third West Bengal Chief Minister to lose an election from her own constituency, after <a href="/wiki/Prafulla_Chandra_Sen" title="Prafulla Chandra Sen">Prafulla Chandra Sen</a> in 1967 and <a href="/wiki/Buddhadeb_Bhattacharjee" title="Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee">Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee</a> in 2011. Mamata challenged the result of Nandigram Constituency in <a href="/wiki/Calcutta_High_Court" title="Calcutta High Court">Calcutta High Court</a> and the matter is sub judice.<a href="#cite_note-23">[22]</a> She led her party to a landslide victory in the 2021 West Bengal assembly polls.<a href="#cite_note-24">[23]</a><a href="#cite_note-pratidin-25">[24]</a><a href="#cite_note-2024.-26">[25]</a> She got elected as member of <a href="/wiki/West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly" title="West Bengal Legislative Assembly">West Bengal Legislative Assembly</a> again from <a href="/wiki/Bhabanipur,_West_Bengal_Assembly_constituency" title="Bhabanipur, West Bengal Assembly constituency">Bhabanipur constituency</a> in the bypoll.<a href="#cite_note-27">[26]</a> Currently India has only two <a href="/wiki/List_of_female_chief_ministers_in_India" title="List of female chief ministers in India">female</a> <a href="/wiki/List_of_current_Indian_chief_ministers" title="List of current Indian chief ministers">incumbent</a> Chief Ministers; she is one of them.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2></div> Banerjee was born in <a href="/wiki/Calcutta" class="mw-redirect" title="Calcutta">Calcutta</a> (now Kolkata), <a href="/wiki/West_Bengal" title="West Bengal">West Bengal</a>, to a <a href="/wiki/Bengali_Brahmins" class="mw-redirect" title="Bengali Brahmins">Bengali Hindu Brahmin</a> family.<a href="#cite_note-28">[27]</a><a href="#cite_note-29">[28]</a> Her parents were Promileswar Banerjee and Gayetri Devi.<a href="#cite_note-:0-30">[29]</a> Banerjee's father, Promileswar, died due to lack of medical treatment, when she was 17.<a href="#cite_note-fire-31">[30]</a> In 1970, Banerjee completed the higher secondary board examination from Deshbandhu Sishu Sikshalay.<a href="#cite_note-fire-31">[30]</a> She received a bachelor's degree in history from <a href="/wiki/Jogamaya_Devi_College" title="Jogamaya Devi College">Jogamaya Devi College</a>.<a href="#cite_note-32">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-33">[32]</a> Later, she earned her master's degree in <a href="/wiki/Islamic_history" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic history">Islamic history</a><a href="#cite_note-34">[33]</a> from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Calcutta" title="University of Calcutta">University of Calcutta</a>. This was followed by a degree in education from <a href="/wiki/Shri_Shikshayatan_College" title="Shri Shikshayatan College">Shri Shikshayatan College</a> and a law degree from <a href="/wiki/Jogesh_Chandra_Chaudhuri_Law_College" title="Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Law College">Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Law College</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kolkata" title="Kolkata">Kolkata</a>.<a href="#cite_note-biodata-35">[34]</a> In 1984, Mamata Banerjee prefixed her name with ‘Dr’, claiming that she had completed her doctorate. After it came to light that the University ( University of East Georgia) from which Banerjee had putatively completed her PhD did not exist, she stopped prefixing her name with the ‘Dr’ title. <a href="#cite_note-36">[35]</a> She was received an Honorary D.Litt in Literature from <a href="/wiki/St._Xavier%27s_University,_Kolkata" title="St. Xavier's University, Kolkata">St. Xavier's University</a> on 6 February 2023<a href="#cite_note-37">[36]</a> and another from <a href="/wiki/Calcutta_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Calcutta University">Calcutta University</a> on 12 January 2018.<a href="#cite_note-38">[37]</a><a href="#cite_note-39">[38]</a> She also received an honorary doctorate from the <a href="/wiki/Kalinga_Institute_of_Industrial_Technology" title="Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology">Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology</a>, a Bhubaneshwar-based deemed university.<a href="#cite_note-40">[39]</a> Banerjee became involved with politics when she was only 15. While studying at the Jogamaya Devi College, she established Chhatra Parishad Unions, the student wing of the <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Congress (I) Party</a>, defeating the <a href="/wiki/All_India_Democratic_Students_Organisation" title="All India Democratic Students Organisation">All India Democratic Students Organisation</a> affiliated with the <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Unity_Centre_of_India_(Communist)" title="Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)">Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)</a>.<a href="#cite_note-fire-31">[30]</a> She continued in the Congress (I) Party in West Bengal, serving in a variety of positions within the party and in other local political organisations.<a href="#cite_note-41">[40]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_political_career,_1984–2011">Early political career, 1984–2011</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Political_career_with_Congress">Political career with Congress</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mamata_Banerjee_photographed_by_Viveka_Tirtha_(15772151282).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Mamata_Banerjee_photographed_by_Viveka_Tirtha_%2815772151282%29.jpg/220px-Mamata_Banerjee_photographed_by_Viveka_Tirtha_%2815772151282%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Mamata_Banerjee_photographed_by_Viveka_Tirtha_%2815772151282%29.jpg/330px-Mamata_Banerjee_photographed_by_Viveka_Tirtha_%2815772151282%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Mamata_Banerjee_photographed_by_Viveka_Tirtha_%2815772151282%29.jpg/440px-Mamata_Banerjee_photographed_by_Viveka_Tirtha_%2815772151282%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>Mamata Banerjee at Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centre for Human Excellence and Social Sciences, Rajarhat, New Town, Kolkata</figcaption></figure> Banerjee began her political career in the <a href="/wiki/Congress(I)" class="mw-redirect" title="Congress(I)">Congress</a> party as a young woman in the 1970s. In 1975 she gained attention in the <a href="/wiki/News_media" title="News media">press media</a> when she danced on the car of socialist activist and politician <a href="/wiki/Jayaprakash_Narayan" title="Jayaprakash Narayan">Jayaprakash Narayan</a> as a protest against him.<a href="#cite_note-42">[41]</a><a href="#cite_note-43">[42]</a><a href="#cite_note-44">[43]</a> She quickly rose in the ranks of the local Congress group and remained the general secretary of <a href="/wiki/Mahila_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="Mahila Congress">Mahila Congress</a> (Indira), West Bengal, from 1976 to 1980.<a href="#cite_note-45">[44]</a> In the <a href="/wiki/1984_Indian_general_election" title="1984 Indian general election">1984 general election</a>, Banerjee became one of India's youngest parliamentarians ever,<a href="#cite_note-46">[45]</a> defeating veteran Communist politician <a href="/wiki/Somnath_Chatterjee" title="Somnath Chatterjee">Somnath Chatterjee</a>, to win the <a href="/wiki/Jadavpur_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jadavpur (Lok Sabha constituency)">Jadavpur parliamentary Constituency</a> in West Bengal. She also became the general secretary of the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Youth_Congress" title="Indian Youth Congress">Indian Youth Congress</a> in 1984. She lost her seat to <a href="/wiki/Malini_Bhattacharya" title="Malini Bhattacharya">Malini Bhattacharya</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India_(Marxist)" title="Communist Party of India (Marxist)">Communist Party of India (Marxist)</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1989_Indian_general_election" title="1989 Indian general election">1989 general elections</a> in an anti-Congress wave.<a href="#cite_note-47">[46]</a> She was re-elected in the <a href="/wiki/1991_Indian_general_election" title="1991 Indian general election">1991 general elections</a>, having settled into the <a href="/wiki/Calcutta_South_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Calcutta South (Lok Sabha constituency)">Calcutta South constituency</a>. She retained the Kolkata South seat in the <a href="/wiki/1996_Indian_general_election" title="1996 Indian general election">1996</a>, <a href="/wiki/1998_Indian_general_election" title="1998 Indian general election">1998</a>, <a href="/wiki/1999_Indian_general_election" title="1999 Indian general election">1999</a>, <a href="/wiki/2004_Indian_general_election" title="2004 Indian general election">2004</a> and <a href="/wiki/2009_Indian_general_election" title="2009 Indian general election">2009 general elections</a>.<a href="#cite_note-IndiaToday-48">[47]</a> Banerjee was appointed the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Ministers_of_the_Republic_of_India#Ministers_of_State" class="mw-redirect" title="Council of Ministers of the Republic of India">Union Minister of State</a> for <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Human_Resource_Development_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Human Resource Development (India)">Human Resources Development</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Youth_Affairs_and_Sports" title="Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports">Youth Affairs and Sports</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Women_and_Child_Development" title="Ministry of Women and Child Development">Women and Child Development</a> in 1991 by <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_India" title="Prime Minister of India">prime minister</a>, <a href="/wiki/P._V._Narasimha_Rao" title="P. V. Narasimha Rao">P. V. Narasimha Rao</a>. As the sports minister, she announced that she would resign and protested in a rally at the <a href="/wiki/Brigade_Parade_Ground" class="mw-redirect" title="Brigade Parade Ground">Brigade Parade Ground</a> in Kolkata, against the Government's indifference towards her proposal to improve sports in the country.<a href="#cite_note-49">[48]</a> She was discharged of her portfolios in 1993. In April 1996, she alleged that Congress was behaving as a stooge of the CPI-M in West Bengal. She said that she was the lone voice of reason and wanted a "clean Congress".<a href="#cite_note-50">[49]</a> In December 1992, Banerjee took a physically challenged girl Dipali Basak, who was allegedly raped by CPI(M) cadre Souvagya Basak, to <a href="/wiki/Writers_Building" class="mw-redirect" title="Writers Building">Writer's Building</a> to the then Chief Minister <a href="/wiki/Jyoti_Basu" title="Jyoti Basu">Jyoti Basu</a> but was harassed by the police before being arrested and put on detention.<a href="#cite_note-millenniumpost_2012-07-21-51">[50]</a><a href="#cite_note-52">[51]</a> She had sworn she would enter the building again only as chief minister.<a href="#cite_note-53">[52]</a> The State Youth Congress led by Mamata Banerjee organised a protest march to Writers Building in Kolkata on 21 July 1993 against the Communist government of the state. They demanded that voters' ID cards be made the only required document for voting, to put a stop to CPM's "scientific rigging". <a href="/wiki/1993_Kolkata_firing" title="1993 Kolkata firing">Thirteen people were shot and killed by police</a> during the protest and many others were injured. Reacting to this incident the then-Chief Minister of West Bengal, Jyoti Basu, said that the "police had done a good job." During the 2014 inquiry, Justice (retired) Sushanta Chatterjee, former Chief Justice of the Orissa High Court, described the police response as "unprovoked and unconstitutional". "The commission has come to the conclusion that the case is even worse than Jallianwala Bagh massacre," said Justice Chatterjee.<a href="#cite_note-54">[53]</a><a href="#cite_note-55">[54]</a><a href="#cite_note-56">[55]</a><a href="#cite_note-57">[56]</a><a href="#cite_note-millenniumpost_2012-07-21-51">[50]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Founding_Trinamool_Congress">Founding Trinamool Congress</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mamata_Banerjee,IMG_0276.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Mamata_Banerjee%2CIMG_0276.JPG/170px-Mamata_Banerjee%2CIMG_0276.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Mamata_Banerjee%2CIMG_0276.JPG/255px-Mamata_Banerjee%2CIMG_0276.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Mamata_Banerjee%2CIMG_0276.JPG/340px-Mamata_Banerjee%2CIMG_0276.JPG 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption>Mamata Banerjee speaking to the elected members and party workers at Bongaon stadium after the West Bengal panchayat elections.</figcaption></figure> In 1997, due to difference in political views with the then <a href="/wiki/West_Bengal_Pradesh_Congress_Committee" title="West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee">West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee</a> president <a href="/wiki/Somen_Mitra" title="Somen Mitra">Somendra Nath Mitra</a>, Banerjee left the Congress Party in West Bengal and became one of the founding members of the <a href="/wiki/All_India_Trinamool_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="All India Trinamool Congress">All India Trinamool Congress</a>, along with <a href="/wiki/Mukul_Roy" title="Mukul Roy">Mukul Roy</a>.<a href="#cite_note-58">[57]</a> It quickly became the primary opposition party to the long-standing Communist government in the state. On 11 December 1998, she controversially held a <a href="/wiki/Samajwadi_Party" title="Samajwadi Party">Samajwadi Party</a> MP, <a href="/wiki/Daroga_Prasad_Saroj" class="mw-redirect" title="Daroga Prasad Saroj">Daroga Prasad Saroj</a>, by the collar and dragged him out of the well of the Lok Sabha to prevent him from protesting against the <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Reservation_Bill" class="mw-redirect" title="Women's Reservation Bill">Women's Reservation Bill</a>.<a href="#cite_note-59">[58]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Railway_Minister_(first_tenure),_1999–2000">Railway Minister (first tenure), 1999–2000</h4></div> In 1999, she joined the <a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a>-led <a href="/wiki/National_Democratic_Alliance_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="National Democratic Alliance (India)">National Democratic Alliance</a> (NDA) government and became Railways Minister.<a href="#cite_note-IndiaToday-48">[47]</a> In 2000, Banerjee presented her first <a href="/wiki/Railway_Budget_of_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Railway Budget of India">Railway Budget</a>. In it, she fulfilled many of her promises to her home state West Bengal.<a href="#cite_note-Tribune_new_2005-60">[59]</a> She introduced a new biweekly New Delhi-<a href="/wiki/Sealdah" title="Sealdah">Sealdah</a> <a href="/wiki/Rajdhani_Express" title="Rajdhani Express">Rajdhani Express</a> train and four express trains connecting various parts of West Bengal, namely the <a href="/wiki/Howrah" title="Howrah">Howrah</a>-<a href="/wiki/Purulia" title="Purulia">Purulia</a> Rupasi Bangla Express, the Sealdah-<a href="/wiki/New_Jalpaiguri" class="mw-redirect" title="New Jalpaiguri">New Jalpaiguri</a> <a href="/wiki/Padatik_Express" title="Padatik Express">Padatik Express</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Shalimar,_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Shalimar, Pakistan">Shalimar</a>-<a href="/wiki/Adra,_Purulia" title="Adra, Purulia">Adra</a> Aranyak Express, the Sealdah-Ajmer Ananya Superfast Express, and Sealdah-Amritsar Akal Takht Superfast Express.<a href="#cite_note-Tribune_new_2005-60">[59]</a> She also increased the frequency of the <a href="/wiki/Pune" title="Pune">Pune</a>-Howrah <a href="/wiki/Azad_Hind_Express" title="Azad Hind Express">Azad Hind Express</a> and extended at least three express train services. Work on the Digha-Howrah Express service was also hastened during her brief tenure.<a href="#cite_note-rediff_railways_2005-61">[60]</a> She also focused on developing tourism, enabling the <a href="/wiki/Darjeeling_Himalayan_Railway" title="Darjeeling Himalayan Railway">Darjeeling Himalayan Railway</a> section to obtain two additional locomotives and proposing the <a href="/wiki/IRCTC" class="mw-redirect" title="IRCTC">Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited</a>. She also commented that India should play a pivotal role in the <a href="/wiki/Trans-Asian_Railway" class="mw-redirect" title="Trans-Asian Railway">Trans-Asian Railway</a> and that rail links between <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nepal" title="Nepal">Nepal</a> would be reintroduced. In all, she introduced 19 new trains for the 2000–2001 fiscal year.<a href="#cite_note-rediff_railways_2005-61">[60]</a> In 2000, she and <a href="/wiki/Ajit_Kumar_Panja" title="Ajit Kumar Panja">Ajit Kumar Panja</a> resigned to protest the hike in petroleum prices,<a href="#cite_note-62">[61]</a> and then withdrew their resignations without providing any reasons.<a href="#cite_note-63">[62]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2001_West_Bengal_election">2001 West Bengal election</h4></div> In early 2001, after <a href="/wiki/Tehelka" title="Tehelka">Tehelka</a>'s exposure of <a href="/wiki/Operation_West_End" title="Operation West End">Operation West End</a>,<a href="#cite_note-64">[63]</a> Banerjee walked out of the NDA cabinet and allied with the Congress Party for West Bengal's 2001 elections, to protest the corruption charges levelled by the website against senior ministers of the government.<a href="#cite_note-65">[64]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Minister_of_Coal_and_Mines,_January_2004_–_May_2004">Minister of Coal and Mines, January 2004 – May 2004</h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sushree_Mamata_Banerjee_assumes_the_charge_of_the_Minister_for_Coal_and_Mines_in_New_Delhi_on_January_9,_2004.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Sushree_Mamata_Banerjee_assumes_the_charge_of_the_Minister_for_Coal_and_Mines_in_New_Delhi_on_January_9%2C_2004.jpg/220px-Sushree_Mamata_Banerjee_assumes_the_charge_of_the_Minister_for_Coal_and_Mines_in_New_Delhi_on_January_9%2C_2004.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Sushree_Mamata_Banerjee_assumes_the_charge_of_the_Minister_for_Coal_and_Mines_in_New_Delhi_on_January_9%2C_2004.jpg/330px-Sushree_Mamata_Banerjee_assumes_the_charge_of_the_Minister_for_Coal_and_Mines_in_New_Delhi_on_January_9%2C_2004.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Sushree_Mamata_Banerjee_assumes_the_charge_of_the_Minister_for_Coal_and_Mines_in_New_Delhi_on_January_9%2C_2004.jpg/440px-Sushree_Mamata_Banerjee_assumes_the_charge_of_the_Minister_for_Coal_and_Mines_in_New_Delhi_on_January_9%2C_2004.jpg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="716" /></a><figcaption>Banerjee assumes the charge of the Minister for Coal and Mines in New Delhi on 9 January 2004</figcaption></figure> She returned to the <a href="/wiki/National_Democratic_Alliance" title="National Democratic Alliance">NDA</a> government in September 2003 as a cabinet minister without any portfolio.<a href="#cite_note-66">[65]</a> Along with Mamata, her party colleague Sudip Banerjee was also inducted in the Vajpayee ministry.<a href="#cite_note-67">[66]</a> On 9 January 2004 she took charge as Ministry of Coal and Mines.<a href="#cite_note-68">[67]</a> During her short term as the minister of coal and mines, the government disallowed the sale of the <a href="/wiki/National_Aluminium_Company" title="National Aluminium Company">National Aluminium Company</a>.<a href="#cite_note-69">[68]</a> She held the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Coal" title="Ministry of Coal">Coal</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Mines_(India)" title="Ministry of Mines (India)">Mines</a> portfolios till 22 May 2004. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2004–2006_election_setbacks">2004–2006 election setbacks</h4></div> In Indian general election of 2004 her party aligned with the Bharatiya Janata Party. However, the alliance lost the election and she was the only Trinamool Congress member to be elected from a parliamentary seat from West Bengal.<a href="#cite_note-IndiaToday-48">[47]</a><a href="#cite_note-70">[69]</a> Banerjee suffered further setbacks in 2005 when her party lost control of the <a href="/wiki/Kolkata_Municipal_Corporation" title="Kolkata Municipal Corporation">Kolkata Municipal Corporation</a> and the sitting mayor <a href="/wiki/Subrata_Mukherjee" title="Subrata Mukherjee">Subrata Mukherjee</a> defected from her party.<a href="#cite_note-71">[70]</a> In 2006, the Trinamool Congress was defeated in West Bengal's Assembly Elections, losing more than half of its sitting members. On 4 August 2006, Banerjee hurled her resignation papers at the <a href="/wiki/Deputy_Speaker_of_Lok_Sabha" class="mw-redirect" title="Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha">deputy speaker</a> <a href="/wiki/Charanjit_Singh_Atwal" title="Charanjit Singh Atwal">Charanjit Singh Atwal</a> in <a href="/wiki/Lok_Sabha" title="Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha</a>. She was provoked by <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_Lok_Sabha" class="mw-redirect" title="Speaker of Lok Sabha">Speaker</a> Somnath Chatterjee's rejection of her adjournment motion on illegal infiltration by <a href="/wiki/Bangladeshis" title="Bangladeshis">Bangladeshis</a> in West Bengal<a href="#cite_note-72">[71]</a><a href="#cite_note-73">[72]</a><a href="#cite_note-74">[73]</a> on the grounds that it was not in the proper format.<a href="#cite_note-75">[74]</a><a href="#cite_note-76">[75]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Singur,_Nandigram_and_other_movements">Singur, Nandigram and other movements</h3></div> On 20 October 2005, she protested against the forceful land acquisition and the atrocities perpetrated against local farmers in the name of the <a href="/wiki/Industrial_development" class="mw-redirect" title="Industrial development">industrial development</a> policy of the <a href="/wiki/Buddhadeb_Bhattacharjee" title="Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee">Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee</a> government in West Bengal. Benny Santoso, <a href="/wiki/CEO" class="mw-redirect" title="CEO">CEO</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a>-based Salim Group, had pledged a large investment in West Bengal, and the <a href="/wiki/West_Bengal_government" class="mw-redirect" title="West Bengal government">West Bengal government</a> had given him farmland in Howrah, sparking protests. In soaking rain, Banerjee and other Trinamool Congress members stood in front of the Taj Hotel where Santoso had arrived, shut out by the police. Later, she and her supporters followed Santoso's convoy. A planned "black flag" protest was avoided when the government had Santoso arrive three hours ahead of schedule.<a href="#cite_note-77">[76]</a><a href="#cite_note-78">[77]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Wrestler's_protest">Wrestler's protest</h4></div> Several Olympic and World Championships medal-winning wrestlers, including <a href="/wiki/Sakshi_Malik" title="Sakshi Malik">Sakshi Malik</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vinesh_Phogat" title="Vinesh Phogat">Vinesh Phogat</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bajrang_Punia" title="Bajrang Punia">Bajrang Punia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sangeeta_Phogat" class="mw-redirect" title="Sangeeta Phogat">Sangeeta Phogat</a>, have been protesting in Delhi demanding the arrest of <a href="/wiki/Wrestling_Federation_of_India" title="Wrestling Federation of India">Wrestling Federation of India</a> (WFI) chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Singh for allegedly sexually harassing several women wrestlers and a minor. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took to the streets of Kolkata to support wrestlers in their protest. "Will fight till the protesting wrestlers get justice," the Chief Minister said. "I will request the wrestlers to continue their movement. This fight is for life, for independence, for humanitarian justice."<a href="#cite_note-79">[78]</a><a href="#cite_note-80">[79]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Singur_protest">Singur protest</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Tata_Nano_Singur_controversy" title="Tata Nano Singur controversy">Tata Nano Singur controversy</a></div> In November 2006, Banerjee was forcibly stopped on her way to <a href="/wiki/Singur" title="Singur">Singur</a> for a rally against a proposed <a href="/wiki/Tata_Motors" title="Tata Motors">Tata Motors</a> car project. Banerjee reached the West Bengal assembly and protested at the venue. She addressed a press conference at the assembly and announced a 12-hour shutdown by her party on Friday.<a href="#cite_note-Trinamool_violence-81">[80]</a> After being arrested by police earlier in that day "for violating prohibitory orders" near Singur, she alleged that the administration had acted "unconstitutionally" by preventing her from entering Singur where the Tata motors proposed to set up a small car factory. She was intercepted at Hooghly and sent back.<a href="#cite_note-82">[81]</a> After this incident the Trinamool Congress MLAs protested by damaging furniture and microphones and vandalising the West Bengal Legislative Assembly Building.<a href="#cite_note-Trinamool_violence-81">[80]</a><a href="#cite_note-83">[82]</a> A major strike was called on 14 December 2006. But all in all there was no gain. On 4 December, Banerjee began the historic 26-day hunger strike in Kolkata protesting the forcible acquisition of farmland by the government. The then-President <a href="/wiki/A._P._J._Abdul_Kalam" title="A. P. J. Abdul Kalam">A. P. J. Abdul Kalam</a>, who was concerned about her health, spoke to the then-Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Manmohan_Singh" title="Manmohan Singh">Manmohan Singh</a> to resolve the issue. Kalam also appealed to Banerjee to withdraw her fast as "life is precious". A letter from Manmohan Singh was faxed to <a href="/wiki/Gopalkrishna_Gandhi" title="Gopalkrishna Gandhi">Gopalkrishna Gandhi</a>, the then-Governor of West Bengal, and then it was immediately delivered to Mamata. After receiving the letter Mamata finally broke her fast at midnight on 29 December.<a href="#cite_note-84">[83]</a><a href="#cite_note-85">[84]</a><a href="#cite_note-86">[85]</a><a href="#cite_note-87">[86]</a> In 2016 the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_India" title="Supreme Court of India">Supreme Court</a> declared that the acquisition of 997 acres of land by West Bengal's Left Front government for the Tata Motors plant in Singur was illegal.<a href="#cite_note-88">[87]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Nandigram_protest">Nandigram protest</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Nandigram_violence" title="Nandigram violence">Nandigram violence</a></div> In 2007 a battalion of armed police stormed the rural area of <a href="/wiki/Nandigram" title="Nandigram">Nandigram</a> in the district of <a href="/wiki/Midnapore_East" class="mw-redirect" title="Midnapore East">Purba Medinipur</a> with the aim of quashing protests against the West Bengal government's plans to expropriate 10,000 acres (40 km2) of land for a <a href="/wiki/Special_Economic_Zone" class="mw-redirect" title="Special Economic Zone">Special Economic Zone</a> (SEZ) to be developed by the Indonesian-based <a href="/wiki/Salim_Group" title="Salim Group">Salim Group</a>. At least 14 villagers were shot dead and 70 more were wounded. This led to a large number of intellectuals to protest on the streets.<a href="#cite_note-89">[88]</a><a href="#cite_note-90">[89]</a><a href="#cite_note-91">[90]</a> CPI(M) cadres allegedly molested and raped 300 women and girls during the Nandigram invasions.<a href="#cite_note-92">[91]</a><a href="#cite_note-93">[92]</a> Banerjee wrote letters to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Home Minister <a href="/wiki/Shivraj_Patil" title="Shivraj Patil">Shivraj Patil</a> to stop what she called "state-sponsored violence" promoted by CPI(M) in Nandigram.<a href="#cite_note-94">[93]</a><a href="#cite_note-95">[94]</a> Her political activism during the movement is widely believed to be one of the contributing causes to her landslide victory in <a href="/wiki/2011_West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election">2011</a>. The CBI report on the incident vindicated CPI(M)'s stand that Buddhadeb did not order the police to open fire. They did so only to disperse the unlawful assembly after every other standard operating procedure had failed.<a href="#cite_note-96">[95]</a><a href="#cite_note-telegraph140307-97">[96]</a> But supporting the violence in Nandigram by his own party workers, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya had said earlier "They (the oppositions) have been paid back in the same coin."<a href="#cite_note-98">[97]</a><a href="#cite_note-99">[98]</a> There are allegations of involvement of some local TMC leaders in the Nandigram Violence<a href="#cite_note-100">[99]</a><a href="#cite_note-101">[100]</a><a href="#cite_note-102">[101]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chief_Minister_Government_of_West_Bengal_(20054618606).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Chief_Minister_Government_of_West_Bengal_%2820054618606%29.jpg/220px-Chief_Minister_Government_of_West_Bengal_%2820054618606%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Chief_Minister_Government_of_West_Bengal_%2820054618606%29.jpg/330px-Chief_Minister_Government_of_West_Bengal_%2820054618606%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Chief_Minister_Government_of_West_Bengal_%2820054618606%29.jpg/440px-Chief_Minister_Government_of_West_Bengal_%2820054618606%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4272" data-file-height="2848" /></a><figcaption>Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister Government of West Bengal speaking at an event in London.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2009–2011_electoral_progress">2009–2011 electoral progress</h3></div> Before the 2009 parliamentary elections she allied with the <a href="/wiki/United_Progressive_Alliance" title="United Progressive Alliance">United Progressive Alliance</a> (UPA) led by Indian National Congress. The alliance won 26 seats. Banerjee joined the central cabinet as the railway minister (second tenure). In the 2010 Municipal Elections in West Bengal, TMC won Kolkata Municipal Corporation by a margin of 62 seats. TMC also won Bidhan Nagar Corporation by a seven-seat margin.<a href="#cite_note-103">[102]</a> In 2011, Banerjee won a sweeping majority and assumed the position of chief minister of the state of West Bengal. Her party ended the 34-year rule of the Left Front. Trinamool Congress performed well in the 2009 parliamentary election, winning 19 seats. Its allies in Congress and SUCI also won six and one seats respectively marking the best performance by any opposition party in West Bengal since the beginning of the Left's regime. Until then, the Congress victory of 16 seats in 1984, was considered their best show in opposition. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Railway_Minister_(second_tenure),_2009–2011">Railway Minister (second tenure), 2009–2011</h4></div> In 2009, Mamata Banerjee became the railway minister for the second time. Her focus was again on West Bengal.<a href="#cite_note-104">[103]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_President,_Smt._Pratibha_Devisingh_Patil_administering_the_oath_as_Cabinet_Minister_to_Km._Mamata_Banerjee,_at_a_Swearing-in_Ceremony,_at_Rashtrapati_Bhavan,_in_New_Delhi_on_May_22,_2009.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/The_President%2C_Smt._Pratibha_Devisingh_Patil_administering_the_oath_as_Cabinet_Minister_to_Km._Mamata_Banerjee%2C_at_a_Swearing-in_Ceremony%2C_at_Rashtrapati_Bhavan%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_May_22%2C_2009.jpg/220px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/The_President%2C_Smt._Pratibha_Devisingh_Patil_administering_the_oath_as_Cabinet_Minister_to_Km._Mamata_Banerjee%2C_at_a_Swearing-in_Ceremony%2C_at_Rashtrapati_Bhavan%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_May_22%2C_2009.jpg/330px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/The_President%2C_Smt._Pratibha_Devisingh_Patil_administering_the_oath_as_Cabinet_Minister_to_Km._Mamata_Banerjee%2C_at_a_Swearing-in_Ceremony%2C_at_Rashtrapati_Bhavan%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_May_22%2C_2009.jpg/440px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2200" data-file-height="1461" /></a><figcaption>Banerjee has sworn again as Cabinet Minister at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi at 2009.</figcaption></figure> She led <a href="/wiki/Indian_Railways" title="Indian Railways">Indian Railways</a> to introduce a number of non-stop <a href="/wiki/Duronto_Express" title="Duronto Express">Duronto Express</a> trains connecting large cities<a href="#cite_note-Duronto_Express-105">[104]</a> as well as a number of other passenger trains,<a href="#cite_note-Nineteen_New_Trains-106">[105]</a> including women-only trains.<a href="#cite_note-Women-Only_Trains-107">[106]</a><a href="#cite_note-Ladies_Special_Bandel-108">[107]</a><a href="#cite_note-Ladies_Special_Mumbai-109">[108]</a> The Anantnag-Qadigund segment of the <a href="/wiki/Jammu%E2%80%93Baramulla_line" title="Jammu–Baramulla line">Jammu–Baramulla line</a> that had been in the making since 1994<a href="#cite_note-110">[109]</a> was inaugurated during her tenure.<a href="#cite_note-Qazigund-111">[110]</a> She also declared the 25 km (16 mi) long line-1 of the <a href="/wiki/Kolkata_Metro" title="Kolkata Metro">Kolkata Metro</a> as an independent <a href="/wiki/Indian_Railways#Railway_zones" title="Indian Railways">zone</a> of the Indian Railways<a href="#cite_note-112">[111]</a> for which she was criticised.<a href="#cite_note-113">[112]</a> She stepped down as <a href="/wiki/Railway_Minister_of_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Railway Minister of India">railway minister</a> to become the <a href="/wiki/Chief_Minister_of_West_Bengal" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Minister of West Bengal">chief minister of West Bengal</a>. She commented: "The way I am leaving the railways behind, it will run well. Don't worry, my successor will get all my support."<a href="#cite_note-114">[113]</a> Her nominee from her party, <a href="/wiki/Dinesh_Trivedi" title="Dinesh Trivedi">Dinesh Trivedi</a>, succeeded her as railway minister. Banerjee's tenure as railway minister was subsequently questioned as most of the big-ticket announcements made by her when she held the post, saw little or no progress.<a href="#cite_note-115">[114]</a> Reuters reported that "Her two-year record as railway minister has been heavily criticized for running the network into more debt to pay for populist measures such as more passenger trains."<a href="#cite_note-116">[115]</a> The Indian Railways became loss-making during her two-year tenure.<a href="#cite_note-117">[116]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Chief_Minister_of_West_Bengal">Chief Minister of West Bengal</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Too_many_photos plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-style" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Image_cancel.svg/40px-Image_cancel.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Image_cancel.svg/60px-Image_cancel.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Image_cancel.svg/80px-Image_cancel.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="32" data-file-height="32" /></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section contains too many pictures for its overall length. Relevant discussion may be found on the <a href="/wiki/Talk:Mamata_Banerjee##" title="Talk:Mamata Banerjee">talk page</a>. Please <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mamata_Banerjee&action=edit">improve this article</a> by removing <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GALLERY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GALLERY">indiscriminate collections of images</a> or adjusting images that are <a href="/wiki/MOS:SANDWICH" class="mw-redirect" title="MOS:SANDWICH">sandwiching text</a> in accordance with the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Images" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Images">Manual of Style on use of images</a>. (October 2024) (<a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a>)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="First_term,_2011–16">First term, 2011–16</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/First_Mamata_Banerjee_ministry" class="mw-redirect" title="First Mamata Banerjee ministry">First Mamata Banerjee ministry</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mamata_Banerjee_with_Hillary_Clinton.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Mamata_Banerjee_with_Hillary_Clinton.jpg/220px-Mamata_Banerjee_with_Hillary_Clinton.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="153" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Mamata_Banerjee_with_Hillary_Clinton.jpg/330px-Mamata_Banerjee_with_Hillary_Clinton.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Mamata_Banerjee_with_Hillary_Clinton.jpg/440px-Mamata_Banerjee_with_Hillary_Clinton.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3500" data-file-height="2431" /></a><figcaption>Then United States secretary of State, <a href="/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a> during a meeting with West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee at the <a href="/wiki/Writers%27_Building" title="Writers' Building">Writers'</a>, Kolkata on 7 May 2012.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chief_Minister_Government_of_West_Bengal_(20086289081).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Chief_Minister_Government_of_West_Bengal_%2820086289081%29.jpg/220px-Chief_Minister_Government_of_West_Bengal_%2820086289081%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Chief_Minister_Government_of_West_Bengal_%2820086289081%29.jpg/330px-Chief_Minister_Government_of_West_Bengal_%2820086289081%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Chief_Minister_Government_of_West_Bengal_%2820086289081%29.jpg/440px-Chief_Minister_Government_of_West_Bengal_%2820086289081%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4272" data-file-height="2848" /></a><figcaption>Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister Government of West Bengal shown at an event in <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> on 27 July 2015.</figcaption></figure> In <a href="/wiki/2011_West_Bengal_state_assembly_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 West Bengal state assembly election">2011</a>, the All India Trinamool Congress along with <a href="/wiki/SUCI" class="mw-redirect" title="SUCI">SUCI</a> and the INC won the West Bengal legislative assembly election against the incumbent Left Alliance by securing 227 seats. TMC won 184 seats with the INC winning 42 seats and the SUCI secured one seat. 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K. Narayanan on 20 May 2011.</div></div></div></div> </div> Banerjee was sworn in as chief minister of West Bengal on 20 May 2011.<a href="#cite_note-BBC20110520-119">[118]</a> As the first female chief minister of West Bengal,<a href="#cite_note-BBC20110520-119">[118]</a> one of her first decisions was to return 400 acres of land to Singur farmers. "The cabinet has decided to return 400 acres to unwilling farmers in Singur," the chief minister said. "I have instructed the department to prepare the papers for this. If Tata-babu (<a href="/wiki/Ratan_Tata" title="Ratan Tata">Ratan Tata</a>) wants, he can set up his factory on the remaining 600 acres, otherwise we will see how to go about it."<a href="#cite_note-singur-120">[119]</a> She has also been credited for setting up of the <a href="/wiki/Gorkhaland_Territorial_Administration" title="Gorkhaland Territorial Administration">Gorkhaland Territorial Administration</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Gorkhaland-121">[120]</a> She began various reforms in the education and health sectors. Some of the reforms in the education sector included the release of teachers' monthly pay on the first of every month<a href="#cite_note-122">[121]</a><a href="#cite_note-123">[122]</a> and quicker pensions for retiring teachers.<a href="#cite_note-124">[123]</a> In the health sector Banerjee promised: "A three-phase developmental system will be taken up to improve the health infrastructure and service."<a href="#cite_note-125">[124]</a> On 30 April 2015, a representative of <a href="/wiki/UNICEF" title="UNICEF">UNICEF</a> India congratulated the government for making <a href="/wiki/Nadia_district" title="Nadia district">Nadia</a> the first Open Defecation Free district in the country.<a href="#cite_note-126">[125]</a> In a statement on 17 October 2012, Banerjee attributed the increasing incidence of rape in the country to "more free interaction between men and women". She said that "Earlier if men and women would hold hands, they would get caught by parents and reprimanded but now everything is so open. It's like an open market with open options." She was criticised in the national media for these statements.<a href="#cite_note-127">[126]</a> She was also instrumental in the rollback of the petrol price hikes<a href="#cite_note-128">[127]</a> and the suspension of FDI in the retail sector until a consensus is evolved.<a href="#cite_note-129">[128]</a> In a bid to improve the law and enforcement situation in West Bengal, police commissioners were created at <a href="/wiki/Howrah_Police_Commissionerate" class="mw-redirect" title="Howrah Police Commissionerate">Howrah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barrackpore_Police_Commissionerate" title="Barrackpore Police Commissionerate">Barrackpore</a>, <a href="/wiki/Asansol-Durgapur_Police_Commissionerate" class="mw-redirect" title="Asansol-Durgapur Police Commissionerate">Durgapur-Asansol</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bidhannagar_Police_Commissionerate" class="mw-redirect" title="Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate">Bidhannagar</a>. The total area of Kolkata Municipal Corporation was brought under the control of the <a href="/wiki/Kolkata_Police" title="Kolkata Police">Kolkata Police</a>. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1096940132"><div class="side-box side-box-right listen noprint"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/50px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="50" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/75px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/100px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="160" data-file-height="160" /><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><div class="haudio"> <div class="listen-file-header"><a href="/wiki/File:Mamata_Banerjee_-_Inaugural_Address_-_38th_International_Kolkata_Book_Fair_-_Milan_Mela_Complex_-_Kolkata_2014-01-28_7923.ogv" title="File:Mamata Banerjee - Inaugural Address - 38th International Kolkata Book Fair - Milan Mela Complex - Kolkata 2014-01-28 7923.ogv">Mamata Banerjee at the Inaugural Address of 38th International Kolkata Book Fair</a> (3:48)</div> <div><video id="mwe_player_1" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Mamata_Banerjee_-_Inaugural_Address_-_38th_International_Kolkata_Book_Fair_-_Milan_Mela_Complex_-_Kolkata_2014-01-28_7923.ogv/232px--Mamata_Banerjee_-_Inaugural_Address_-_38th_International_Kolkata_Book_Fair_-_Milan_Mela_Complex_-_Kolkata_2014-01-28_7923.ogv.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="232" height="131" data-durationhint="229" data-mwtitle="Mamata_Banerjee_-_Inaugural_Address_-_38th_International_Kolkata_Book_Fair_-_Milan_Mela_Complex_-_Kolkata_2014-01-28_7923.ogv" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/18/Mamata_Banerjee_-_Inaugural_Address_-_38th_International_Kolkata_Book_Fair_-_Milan_Mela_Complex_-_Kolkata_2014-01-28_7923.ogv/Mamata_Banerjee_-_Inaugural_Address_-_38th_International_Kolkata_Book_Fair_-_Milan_Mela_Complex_-_Kolkata_2014-01-28_7923.ogv.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; 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codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/18/Mamata_Banerjee_-_Inaugural_Address_-_38th_International_Kolkata_Book_Fair_-_Milan_Mela_Complex_-_Kolkata_2014-01-28_7923.ogv/Mamata_Banerjee_-_Inaugural_Address_-_38th_International_Kolkata_Book_Fair_-_Milan_Mela_Complex_-_Kolkata_2014-01-28_7923.ogv.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /></video></div> <div class="description">Mamata Banerjee at the Inaugural Address of 38th International Kolkata Book Fair in 2014.</div></div></div></div> </div> Banerjee had shown a keen interest in making the public aware of the state's history and culture. She named several stations of the Kolkata Metro after freedom fighters,<a href="#cite_note-130">[129]</a> and plans on naming upcoming stations after religious leaders, poets, singers and the like.<a href="#cite_note-131">[130]</a> Mamata Banerjee has been criticised for starting controversial stipends to imams (Iman Bhatta)<a href="#cite_note-Gupta-132">[131]</a><a href="#cite_note-NDTV.com-133">[132]</a><a href="#cite_note-Hindustan_Times-134">[133]</a> which was ruled unconstitutional by <a href="/wiki/Calcutta_High_Court" title="Calcutta High Court">Calcutta High Court</a>.<a href="#cite_note-firstpost.com-135">[134]</a><a href="#cite_note-Chatterjee-136">[135]</a><a href="#cite_note-NDTV_2013-09-02-137">[136]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chief_Minister_Government_of_West_Bengal_(19892837430).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Chief_Minister_Government_of_West_Bengal_%2819892837430%29.jpg/220px-Chief_Minister_Government_of_West_Bengal_%2819892837430%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Chief_Minister_Government_of_West_Bengal_%2819892837430%29.jpg/330px-Chief_Minister_Government_of_West_Bengal_%2819892837430%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Chief_Minister_Government_of_West_Bengal_%2819892837430%29.jpg/440px-Chief_Minister_Government_of_West_Bengal_%2819892837430%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3772" data-file-height="2550" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Priti_Patel" title="Priti Patel">Priti Patel</a>, then Minister of State for Employment in Government of United Kingdom, and former Home Secretary of United Kingdom meeting Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister Government of West Bengal in London.</figcaption></figure> On 16 February 2012, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates">Bill Gates</a>, of the <a href="/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation" title="Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation">Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation</a>, sent a letter to the West Bengal government praising Banerjee and her administration for achieving a full year without any reported cases of polio. The letter said this was not only a milestone for India but also for the whole world.<a href="#cite_note-138">[137]</a> In June 2012, she launched a <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a> page to rally and gather public support for <a href="/wiki/A.P.J_Abdul_Kalam" class="mw-redirect" title="A.P.J Abdul Kalam">A.P.J Abdul Kalam</a>, her party's choice for the presidential elections.<a href="#cite_note-139">[138]</a> After he refused to stand for the second time, she supported <a href="/wiki/Pranab_Mukherjee" title="Pranab Mukherjee">Pranab Mukherjee</a> for the post, after a long tussle over the issue, commenting she was personally a "great fan" of Mukherjee and wishing that he "grows from strength to strength".<a href="#cite_note-140">[139]</a><a href="#cite_note-141">[140]</a> She is against calling bandhs (work stoppage) although actively supported them when she was in opposition.<a href="#cite_note-142">[141]</a> Her tenure was also heavily marred by the <a href="/wiki/Saradha_Group_financial_scandal" title="Saradha Group financial scandal">Saradha Scam</a> – financial embezzlement which led to the imprisonment of <a href="/wiki/Madan_Mitra" title="Madan Mitra">Madan Mitra</a> – a former minister in her cabinet, <a href="/wiki/Kunal_Ghosh" title="Kunal Ghosh">Kunal Ghosh</a> – a party MP, and rigorous grilling of several party men holding important posts. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Second_term,_2016–2021">Second term, 2016–2021</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Second_Mamata_Banerjee_ministry" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Mamata Banerjee ministry">Second Mamata Banerjee ministry</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Prime_Minister,_Shri_Narendra_Modi,_the_Prime_Minister_of_Bangladesh,_Ms._Sheikh_Hasina_and_the_Chief_Minister_of_West_Bengal,_Ms._Mamata_Banerjee_at_Hyderabad_House,_in_New_Delhi_on_April_08,_2017.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/The_Prime_Minister%2C_Shri_Narendra_Modi%2C_the_Prime_Minister_of_Bangladesh%2C_Ms._Sheikh_Hasina_and_the_Chief_Minister_of_West_Bengal%2C_Ms._Mamata_Banerjee_at_Hyderabad_House%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_April_08%2C_2017.jpg/220px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/The_Prime_Minister%2C_Shri_Narendra_Modi%2C_the_Prime_Minister_of_Bangladesh%2C_Ms._Sheikh_Hasina_and_the_Chief_Minister_of_West_Bengal%2C_Ms._Mamata_Banerjee_at_Hyderabad_House%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_April_08%2C_2017.jpg/330px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/The_Prime_Minister%2C_Shri_Narendra_Modi%2C_the_Prime_Minister_of_Bangladesh%2C_Ms._Sheikh_Hasina_and_the_Chief_Minister_of_West_Bengal%2C_Ms._Mamata_Banerjee_at_Hyderabad_House%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_April_08%2C_2017.jpg/440px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1545" data-file-height="771" /></a><figcaption>Prime Minister Modi, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina and the Chief Minister Banerjee at Hyderabad House, in New Delhi on 8 April 2017.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_President,_Shri_Ram_Nath_Kovind_unveiling_the_Foundation_Stone_of_Savitribai_Public_Girls_Hostel_and_APJ_Abdul_Kalam_International_Visitors_Guest_House,_at_the_64th_Annual_Convocation_of_IIT_Kharagpur,_in_West_Bengal.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/The_President%2C_Shri_Ram_Nath_Kovind_unveiling_the_Foundation_Stone_of_Savitribai_Public_Girls_Hostel_and_APJ_Abdul_Kalam_International_Visitors_Guest_House%2C_at_the_64th_Annual_Convocation_of_IIT_Kharagpur%2C_in_West_Bengal.JPG/220px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="125" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/The_President%2C_Shri_Ram_Nath_Kovind_unveiling_the_Foundation_Stone_of_Savitribai_Public_Girls_Hostel_and_APJ_Abdul_Kalam_International_Visitors_Guest_House%2C_at_the_64th_Annual_Convocation_of_IIT_Kharagpur%2C_in_West_Bengal.JPG/330px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/The_President%2C_Shri_Ram_Nath_Kovind_unveiling_the_Foundation_Stone_of_Savitribai_Public_Girls_Hostel_and_APJ_Abdul_Kalam_International_Visitors_Guest_House%2C_at_the_64th_Annual_Convocation_of_IIT_Kharagpur%2C_in_West_Bengal.JPG/440px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2200" data-file-height="1252" /></a><figcaption>President Kovind during a Foundation Stone laying ceremony at the 64th Annual Convocation of IIT Kharagpur, in West Bengal. The Governor of West Bengal, and the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee are also seen.</figcaption></figure> In the <a href="/wiki/2016_West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election">2016 assembly elections</a>, All India Trinamool Congress won with a landslide two-thirds majority under Mamata Banerjee winning 211 seats out of total 293,<a href="#cite_note-143">[142]</a> who has been elected as Chief Minister West Bengal for the second term.<a href="#cite_note-144">[143]</a> All India Trinamool Congress won with an enhanced majority contesting alone and became the first ruling party to win without an ally since 1962 in West Bengal. In 2017 <a href="/wiki/Kanyashree_Prakalpa" title="Kanyashree Prakalpa">Kanyashree</a>, a scheme launched by her government, was ranked the best by the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> among 552 social sector schemes from across 62 countries.<a href="#cite_note-145">[144]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Third_term,_2021–present">Third term, 2021–present</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Third_Mamata_Banerjee_ministry" class="mw-redirect" title="Third Mamata Banerjee ministry">Third Mamata Banerjee ministry</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bengal_Global_Business_Summit_-_2022.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Bengal_Global_Business_Summit_-_2022.jpg/220px-Bengal_Global_Business_Summit_-_2022.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Bengal_Global_Business_Summit_-_2022.jpg/330px-Bengal_Global_Business_Summit_-_2022.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Bengal_Global_Business_Summit_-_2022.jpg/440px-Bengal_Global_Business_Summit_-_2022.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="450" /></a><figcaption>Banerjee giving speech at Bengal Global Business Summit - 2022 in Kolkata on 20 April.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mamata_Banerjee_with_UNESCO_officers.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Mamata_Banerjee_with_UNESCO_officers.jpg/220px-Mamata_Banerjee_with_UNESCO_officers.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Mamata_Banerjee_with_UNESCO_officers.jpg/330px-Mamata_Banerjee_with_UNESCO_officers.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Mamata_Banerjee_with_UNESCO_officers.jpg/440px-Mamata_Banerjee_with_UNESCO_officers.jpg 2x" data-file-width="666" data-file-height="533" /></a><figcaption> Banerjee with UNESCO officers Érik Falt and Tim Curtis, during a celebration over the enlistment of <a href="/wiki/Durga_Puja" title="Durga Puja">Durga Puja</a> as a intangible cultural heritage, on 1 September 2022.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Union_Minister_for_Home_Affairs_and_Cooperation,_Shri_Amit_Shah_at_the_25th_Eastern_Zonal_Council_meeting,_in_Kolkata_on_December_17,_2022_(3).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/The_Union_Minister_for_Home_Affairs_and_Cooperation%2C_Shri_Amit_Shah_at_the_25th_Eastern_Zonal_Council_meeting%2C_in_Kolkata_on_December_17%2C_2022_%283%29.jpg/220px-The_Union_Minister_for_Home_Affairs_and_Cooperation%2C_Shri_Amit_Shah_at_the_25th_Eastern_Zonal_Council_meeting%2C_in_Kolkata_on_December_17%2C_2022_%283%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="125" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/The_Union_Minister_for_Home_Affairs_and_Cooperation%2C_Shri_Amit_Shah_at_the_25th_Eastern_Zonal_Council_meeting%2C_in_Kolkata_on_December_17%2C_2022_%283%29.jpg/330px-The_Union_Minister_for_Home_Affairs_and_Cooperation%2C_Shri_Amit_Shah_at_the_25th_Eastern_Zonal_Council_meeting%2C_in_Kolkata_on_December_17%2C_2022_%283%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/The_Union_Minister_for_Home_Affairs_and_Cooperation%2C_Shri_Amit_Shah_at_the_25th_Eastern_Zonal_Council_meeting%2C_in_Kolkata_on_December_17%2C_2022_%283%29.jpg/440px-The_Union_Minister_for_Home_Affairs_and_Cooperation%2C_Shri_Amit_Shah_at_the_25th_Eastern_Zonal_Council_meeting%2C_in_Kolkata_on_December_17%2C_2022_%283%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2200" data-file-height="1247" /></a><figcaption>Minister of Home Affairs, <a href="/wiki/Amit_Shah" title="Amit Shah">Amit Shah</a> and Mamata Banerjee at the 25th Eastern Zonal Council meeting, in <a href="/wiki/Kolkata" title="Kolkata">Kolkata</a> on 17 December 2022.</figcaption></figure> In the <a href="/wiki/2021_West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election">2021 assembly elections</a>, AITC won with a landslide two-thirds majority. But, Mamata Banerjee who fought from <a href="/wiki/Nandigram_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nandigram (Vidhan Sabha constituency)">Nandigram</a> lost against <a href="/wiki/Suvendu_Adhikari" title="Suvendu Adhikari">Suvendu Adhikari</a> of Bharatiya Janata Party by 1,956 votes.<a href="#cite_note-146">[145]</a><a href="#cite_note-147">[146]</a><a href="#cite_note-148">[147]</a> Mamata Banerjee however challenged this outcome and the matter is sub judice.<a href="#cite_note-details-21">[a]</a> As her party won 213 seats out of total 292, she was elected as Chief Minister of West Bengal for the third term. Later at Raj Bhawan, she tendered her resignation to <a href="/wiki/Jagdeep_Dhankhar" title="Jagdeep Dhankhar">Jagdeep Dhankhar</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Zee_News_2021-05-03-149">[148]</a> She took oath as Chief Minister on 5 May 2021.<a href="#cite_note-150">[149]</a><a href="#cite_note-151">[150]</a> Her party later won 2 remaining seats and she herself won Bhabanipur by-election by a huge margin of 58,835<a href="#cite_note-Constituencywise-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-Roundwise-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-partywise-3">[3]</a> votes. She was sworn in as MLA on 7 October.<a href="#cite_note-152">[151]</a><a href="#cite_note-153">[152]</a><a href="#cite_note-154">[153]</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1096940132"><div class="side-box side-box-right listen noprint"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/50px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="50" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/75px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/100px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="160" data-file-height="160" /><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><div class="haudio"> <div class="listen-file-header"><a href="/wiki/File:Mamata_Banerjee_took_oath_as_Chief_Minister_of_the_state_of_West_Bengal_for_third_time,_5_May_2021.ogg" title="File:Mamata Banerjee took oath as Chief Minister of the state of West Bengal for third time, 5 May 2021.ogg">Taking the Oath at Throne Room, Raj Bhavan, Kolkata</a></div> <div><audio id="mwe_player_2" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="232" style="width:232px;" data-durationhint="85" data-mwtitle="Mamata_Banerjee_took_oath_as_Chief_Minister_of_the_state_of_West_Bengal_for_third_time,_5_May_2021.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Mamata_Banerjee_took_oath_as_Chief_Minister_of_the_state_of_West_Bengal_for_third_time%2C_5_May_2021.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/46/Mamata_Banerjee_took_oath_as_Chief_Minister_of_the_state_of_West_Bengal_for_third_time%2C_5_May_2021.ogg/Mamata_Banerjee_took_oath_as_Chief_Minister_of_the_state_of_West_Bengal_for_third_time%2C_5_May_2021.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></div> <div class="description">Mamata Banerjee takes the oath of office as Chief Minister administered by Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on 5 May 2021.</div></div></div></div> </div> After winning the election, following her promises she launched the scheme Lakshmir Bhandar. In this scheme women under the age of 60 were provided the basic financial help, about 500 rupees for general and 1000 rupees to minorities.<a href="#cite_note-155">[154]</a> The scheme turned out to be a huge success as it became massively popular.<a href="#cite_note-156">[155]</a> Another scheme was also projected under her leadership, Students Credit Card scheme, to give financial supports in loan to intellectual students who are unable to keep higher studies due to lack of money. The loan limit was up to 10 lakh rupees, under the nominee of government of West Bengal.<a href="#cite_note-157">[156]</a> On 30 November 2021, she surpassed her immediate predecessor Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee to become the third-longest-serving Chief Minister of West Bengal. If Mamata remains in office at least till 26 October 2025, she would become the second-longest-serving Chief Minister after <a href="/wiki/Jyoti_Basu" title="Jyoti Basu">Jyoti Basu</a>, superseding <a href="/wiki/Bidhan_Chandra_Roy" title="Bidhan Chandra Roy">Bidhan Chandra Roy</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Controversies_and_criticism">Controversies and criticism</h3></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2024_RG_Kar_Hospital_Rape_Case">2024 RG Kar Hospital Rape Case</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2024_Kolkata_rape_and_murder" title="2024 Kolkata rape and murder">2024 Kolkata rape and murder</a></div> Banerjee was widely<a href="#cite_note-158">[157]</a> criticised for the <a href="/wiki/2024_Kolkata_rape_and_murder_incident" class="mw-redirect" title="2024 Kolkata rape and murder incident">rape and murder</a> of a young trainee doctor at <a href="/wiki/R._G._Kar_Medical_College_and_Hospital" title="R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital">R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital</a> and alleged coverup<a href="#cite_note-159">[158]</a><a href="#cite_note-160">[159]</a> where she was accused<a href="#cite_note-161">[160]</a><a href="#cite_note-162">[161]</a> of trying to protect the now ex principal Sandip Ghosh<a href="#cite_note-163">[162]</a> <a href="#cite_note-164">[163]</a>whose involvement in the incident is being investigated by the <a href="/wiki/Central_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Central Bureau of Investigation">CBI</a>.<a href="#cite_note-165">[164]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Sandeshkhali_incident">Sandeshkhali incident</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2024_Sandeshkhali_violence" title="2024 Sandeshkhali violence">2024 Sandeshkhali violence</a></div> In February 2024, several women in <a href="/wiki/Sandeshkhali" title="Sandeshkhali">Sandeshkhali</a> village came forward saying that Trinamool Congress local bloc leader and alleged strongmen Sheikh Shahjahan, Uttam Sardar and Shibu Hazra had been sexually assaulting and raping them. Mamata Bannerjee was accused by the <a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">Bharatiya Janata Party</a> leaders for keeping silence on the crime and protecting such criminal politicians.<a href="#cite_note-166">[165]</a><a href="#cite_note-167">[166]</a> Furthermore, TMC leader <a href="/wiki/Partha_Bhowmick" title="Partha Bhowmick">Partha Bhowmick</a>, who visited Sandeshkhali, claimed that assault allegations were fabricated.<a href="#cite_note-168">[167]</a> Sheikh Shahjahan has been on the run, after Enforcement Directorate officers attempted to arrest him on a corruption case, who were <a href="/wiki/2024_Sandeshkhali_violence" title="2024 Sandeshkhali violence">attacked</a> by his supporters.<a href="#cite_note-169">[168]</a> On 29 February 2024, at around 5:30 am (IST), Shahjahan was arrested by the police from <a href="/wiki/Minakhan" title="Minakhan">Minakhan</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_24_Parganas" class="mw-redirect" title="North 24 Parganas">North 24 Parganas</a> by them.<a href="#cite_note-170">[169]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life_and_recognitions">Personal life and recognitions</h2></div> Throughout her political life, Banerjee has maintained a publicly austere lifestyle, dressing in simple traditional Bengali clothes and avoiding luxuries.<a href="#cite_note-taat-171">[170]</a><a href="#cite_note-lifestyle-172">[171]</a> During an interview in April 2019, Prime minister <a href="/wiki/Narendra_Modi" title="Narendra Modi">Narendra Modi</a> claimed that despite their political differences, Banerjee sends her own selected kurtas and sweets to him every year.<a href="#cite_note-173">[172]</a> Australian Envoy Barry O'Farrell thanked her for sending sweets on the occasion of <a href="/wiki/Vijayadashami" title="Vijayadashami">Vijayadashami</a>.<a href="#cite_note-174">[173]</a> In September 2019 when <a href="/wiki/Jashodaben_Modi" title="Jashodaben Modi">Ms. Jashodaben</a>, the wife of PM Modi, was leaving Kolkata, Mamata met her at the Kolkata airport and gifted her a saree.<a href="#cite_note-175">[174]</a><a href="#cite_note-176">[175]</a> She identifies herself as a <a href="/wiki/Hindu" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindu">Hindu</a>.<a href="#cite_note-177">[176]</a> Banerjee is a self-taught painter and a poet.<a href="#cite_note-178">[177]</a><a href="#cite_note-179">[178]</a> Her 300 paintings were sold for ₹9crore (<a href="/wiki/Indian_Rupee" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian Rupee">₹</a>90 million, <a href="/wiki/Pound_Sterling" class="mw-redirect" title="Pound Sterling">£</a>990,000 or <a href="/wiki/United_States_Dollar" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Dollar">US$</a>1,350,000).<a href="#cite_note-180">[179]</a> In 2012, <a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a> magazine named her as one of the <a href="/wiki/Time_100" title="Time 100">100 Most Influential People in the World</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Time_100-181">[180]</a> <a href="/wiki/Bloomberg_Markets" title="Bloomberg Markets">Bloomberg Markets</a> magazine listed her among the <a href="/wiki/50_Most_Influential_(Bloomberg_Markets_ranking)" class="mw-redirect" title="50 Most Influential (Bloomberg Markets ranking)">50 most influential people in the world of finance</a> in September 2012.<a href="#cite_note-182">[181]</a> In 2018, she was conferred the Skoch Chief Minister of the Year Award.<a href="#cite_note-183">[182]</a> Banerjee stepped out into the streets of Kolkata during lockdown, caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, to spread awareness among the common people.<a href="#cite_note-184">[183]</a><a href="#cite_note-185">[184]</a><a href="#cite_note-186">[185]</a><a href="#cite_note-187">[186]</a><a href="#cite_note-188">[187]</a> While appealing for maintaining religious harmony, Banerjee has reiterated the fact on numerous occasions that "Religion is personal, but festivals are universal."<a href="#cite_note-189">[188]</a><a href="#cite_note-190">[189]</a> "She has always been a fighter" said <a href="/wiki/Yashwant_Sinha" title="Yashwant Sinha">Yashwant Sinha</a> while disclosing that Mamata had offered to be a hostage as part of a negotiation strategy during the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Airlines_Flight_814" title="Indian Airlines Flight 814">Kandahar hijacking crisis</a>. "She was ready to make the ultimate sacrifice for the country" Sinha added.<a href="#cite_note-191">[190]</a><a href="#cite_note-192">[191]</a> In 2021, Mamata Banerjee was invited to attend World Meeting for Peace in <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>.<a href="#cite_note-193">[192]</a><a href="#cite_note-194">[193]</a><a href="#cite_note-195">[194]</a> She was the only Indian invited to attend the event. But in September, the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_External_Affairs_(India)" title="Ministry of External Affairs (India)">Union Ministry of External Affairs</a> (MEA) denied her permission to attend the peace conference stating that the event was not "commensurate in status for participation by the chief minister of a state".<a href="#cite_note-196">[195]</a><a href="#cite_note-197">[196]</a><a href="#cite_note-198">[197]</a> BJP MP <a href="/wiki/Subramanian_Swamy" title="Subramanian Swamy">Subramanian Swamy</a> slammed Modi government on Banerjee's Rome visit cancelation.<a href="#cite_note-199">[198]</a><a href="#cite_note-200">[199]</a><a href="#cite_note-201">[200]</a> According to Indian Diplomat <a href="/wiki/K._P._Fabian" title="K. P. Fabian">K. P. Fabian</a>, the reason cited by MEA was unconvincing.<a href="#cite_note-202">[201]</a> Similarly, in December, Banerjee was denied permission by the MEA to visit <a href="/wiki/Nepal" title="Nepal">Nepal</a>.<a href="#cite_note-203">[202]</a> TIME magazine published its annual list of 'The 100 Most Influential People of 2021' on 15 September 2021. The list includes Mamata Banerjee among others.<a href="#cite_note-204">[203]</a><a href="#cite_note-205">[204]</a><a href="#cite_note-206">[205]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h3></div> <a href="/wiki/Baghini_(2019_Film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Baghini (2019 Film)">Baghini</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Cinema_of_West_Bengal" title="Cinema of West Bengal">Bengali film</a>, inspired by Mamata Banerjee's life, was released on 24 May 2019. It is not a biopic.<a href="#cite_note-207">[206]</a><a href="#cite_note-208">[207]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works_in_literature_and_other_fields">Works in literature and other fields</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mamata_Banerjee_at_43rd_International_Kolkata_Book_Fair.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Mamata_Banerjee_at_43rd_International_Kolkata_Book_Fair.jpg/220px-Mamata_Banerjee_at_43rd_International_Kolkata_Book_Fair.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Mamata_Banerjee_at_43rd_International_Kolkata_Book_Fair.jpg/330px-Mamata_Banerjee_at_43rd_International_Kolkata_Book_Fair.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Mamata_Banerjee_at_43rd_International_Kolkata_Book_Fair.jpg/440px-Mamata_Banerjee_at_43rd_International_Kolkata_Book_Fair.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="450" /></a><figcaption>Mamata Banerjee at 43rd <a href="/wiki/International_Kolkata_Book_Fair" class="mw-redirect" title="International Kolkata Book Fair">International Kolkata Book Fair</a> with her books in hand</figcaption></figure> Numerous books written by her have been published so far. On 2022, she was given Paschimbanga Akademy Award for 'Kabita Bitan' which consists of 946 poems.<a href="#cite_note-209">[208]</a> She is also a self-taught painter.<a href="#cite_note-210">[209]</a> Her paintings have also been auctioned several times.<a href="#cite_note-211">[210]</a> She is also a lyricist and her compositions are mostly based on '<a href="/wiki/Durga_Puja" title="Durga Puja">Durga Puja</a>' and 'Motherland'. 'Maa Go Tumi Sarbojanin' sung by <a href="/wiki/Shreya_Ghoshal" title="Shreya Ghoshal">Shreya Ghoshal</a> is one of her most popular songs.<a href="#cite_note-212">[211]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ma_Mati_Manush" title="Ma Mati Manush">Ma Mati Manush</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-details-21">^ <a href="#cite_ref-details_21-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-details_21-1">b</a> For more details see <a href="/wiki/2021_Nandigram_Legislative_Assembly_election_result_controversy" class="mw-redirect" title="2021 Nandigram Legislative Assembly election result controversy">Nandigram Controversy</a> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Constituencywise-1">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Constituencywise_1-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Constituencywise_1-1">b</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://results.eci.gov.in/ResultByeOct2021/ConstituencywiseS25159.htm?ac=159">"Election Commission of India"</a>. results.eci.gov.in. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211003142939/https://results.eci.gov.in/ResultByeOct2021/ConstituencywiseS25159.htm?ac=159">Archived</a> from the original on 3 October 2021. 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Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.indiatimes.com/culture/who-we-are/wtf-mamata-banerjee-paintings-sold-for-9-crores-285240.html">the original</a> on 13 May 2018. 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Penguin Random House India. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-93-5305-360-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-93-5305-360-4"><bdi>978-93-5305-360-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Didi%3A+The+Untold+Mamata+Banerjee&rft.pub=Penguin+Random+House+India&rft.date=2018&rft.isbn=978-93-5305-360-4&rft.aulast=Paul&rft.aufirst=Shutapa&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DG_V5DwAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMamata+Banerjee" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGupta2012" class="citation book cs1">Gupta, Monobina (2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=VcfjAAAAQBAJ">Didi</a>. Harper Collins. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-93-5116-044-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-93-5116-044-1"><bdi>978-93-5116-044-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Didi&rft.pub=Harper+Collins&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=978-93-5116-044-1&rft.aulast=Gupta&rft.aufirst=Monobina&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DVcfjAAAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMamata+Banerjee" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNielsen2016" class="citation book cs1">Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2016). "5. Mamata Banerjee. Redefining Female Leadership". In Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Heierstad, Geir (eds.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/29645/indias-democracies.pdf?sequence=1#page=101">India's Democracies</a> (PDF). Scandinavian University Press (Universitetsforlaget). pp. 101–130. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-82-15-02689-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-82-15-02689-3"><bdi>978-82-15-02689-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=5.+Mamata+Banerjee.+Redefining+Female+Leadership&rft.btitle=India%27s+Democracies&rft.pages=101-130&rft.pub=Scandinavian+University+Press+%28Universitetsforlaget%29&rft.date=2016&rft.isbn=978-82-15-02689-3&rft.aulast=Nielsen&rft.aufirst=Kenneth+Bo&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Flibrary.oapen.org%2Fbitstream%2Fhandle%2F20.500.12657%2F29645%2Findias-democracies.pdf%3Fsequence%3D1%23page%3D101&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMamata+Banerjee" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMitra2014" class="citation book cs1">Mitra, Dola (2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Rei6oQEACAAJ">Decoding Didi: Making Sense of Mamata Banerjee</a>. Rupa. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-81-291-3267-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-81-291-3267-3"><bdi>978-81-291-3267-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Decoding+Didi%3A+Making+Sense+of+Mamata+Banerjee&rft.pub=Rupa&rft.date=2014&rft.isbn=978-81-291-3267-3&rft.aulast=Mitra&rft.aufirst=Dola&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DRei6oQEACAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMamata+Banerjee" class="Z3988"></li></ul> <dl><dt>Journals</dt></dl> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKariwal2019" class="citation journal cs1">Kariwal, Yash (January–March 2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ijrar.com/upload_issue/ijrar_issue_20543201.pdf">"Role of Print Media in the Construction of a Political Image of Mamata Banerjee: A Content Analysis of News Coverage in The Telegraph Newspaper"</a> (PDF). International Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews. 6 (1). <a href="/wiki/EISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="EISSN (identifier)">eISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/2348-1269">2348-1269</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/2349-5138">2349-5138</a>.</cite><span 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Handique</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Lalu_Prasad_Yadav" title="Lalu Prasad Yadav">Lalu Prasad Yadav</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"> <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Railways_(India)" title="Minister of Railways (India)">Union Minister of Railways</a> 26 May 2009 – 26 May 2011 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Manmohan_Singh" title="Manmohan Singh">Manmohan Singh</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Buddhadeb_Bhattacharjee" title="Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee">Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"> <a href="/wiki/Chief_Minister_of_West_Bengal" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Minister of West Bengal">Chief Minister of West Bengal</a> 20 May 2011 – present </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Incumbent </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #FFBF00;">Party political offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold">office Established</div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"> President <a href="/wiki/All_India_Trinamool_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="All India Trinamool Congress">All India Trinamool Congress</a> 1 January 1998 – present </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Incumbent </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="23x15px&#124;border_&#124;alt=India&#124;link=India_Railway_Ministers_of_India" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Railway_Ministers_of_India" title="Template:Railway Ministers of India"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Railway_Ministers_of_India" title="Template talk:Railway Ministers of India"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Railway_Ministers_of_India" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Railway Ministers of India"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="23x15px&#124;border_&#124;alt=India&#124;link=India_Railway_Ministers_of_India" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/India" title="India"><img alt="India" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Railways_(India)" title="Minister of Railways (India)">Railway Ministers of India</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Mathai" class="mw-redirect" title="John Mathai">John Mathai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._Gopalaswami_Ayyangar" title="N. 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title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a>)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_of_Bihar" title="List of chief ministers of Bihar">Bihar</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Nitish_Kumar" title="Nitish Kumar">Nitish Kumar</a> (<a href="/wiki/Janata_Dal_(United)" title="Janata Dal (United)">JD(U)</a>)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_of_Chhattisgarh" title="List of chief ministers of Chhattisgarh">Chhattisgarh</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Vishnu_Deo_Sai" title="Vishnu Deo Sai">Vishnu Deo Sai</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a>)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_of_Goa" title="List of chief ministers of Goa">Goa</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Pramod_Sawant" title="Pramod Sawant">Pramod Sawant</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a>)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_of_Gujarat" title="List of chief ministers of Gujarat">Gujarat</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Bhupendrabhai_Patel" title="Bhupendrabhai Patel">Bhupendrabhai Patel</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a>)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_of_Haryana" 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scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_of_Madhya_Pradesh" title="List of chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh">Madhya Pradesh</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Mohan_Yadav" title="Mohan Yadav">Mohan Yadav</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a>)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_of_Maharashtra" title="List of chief ministers of Maharashtra">Maharashtra</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Devendra_Fadnavis" title="Devendra Fadnavis">Devendra Fadnavis</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a>)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_of_Manipur" title="List of chief ministers of Manipur">Manipur</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/N._Biren_Singh" title="N. Biren Singh">N. Biren Singh</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a>)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_of_Meghalaya" title="List of chief ministers of Meghalaya">Meghalaya</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Conrad_Sangma" title="Conrad Sangma">Conrad Sangma</a> (<a href="/wiki/National_People%27s_Party_(India)" title="National People's Party (India)">NPP</a>)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_of_Mizoram" title="List of chief ministers of Mizoram">Mizoram</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Lalduhoma" title="Lalduhoma">Lalduhoma</a> (<a href="/wiki/Zoram_People%27s_Movement" title="Zoram People's Movement">ZPM</a>)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_of_Nagaland" title="List of chief ministers of Nagaland">Nagaland</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Neiphiu_Rio" title="Neiphiu Rio">Neiphiu Rio</a> (<a href="/wiki/Nationalist_Democratic_Progressive_Party" title="Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party">NDPP</a>)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_of_Delhi" title="List of chief ministers of Delhi">NCT of Delhi</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Atishi" class="mw-redirect" title="Atishi">Atishi</a> (<a href="/wiki/Aam_Aadmi_Party" title="Aam Aadmi Party">AAP</a>)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_of_Odisha" title="List of chief ministers of Odisha">Odisha</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Mohan_Charan_Majhi" title="Mohan Charan Majhi">Mohan Charan Majhi</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a>)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_of_Puducherry" title="List of chief ministers of Puducherry">Puducherry</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/N._Rangasamy" class="mw-redirect" title="N. Rangasamy">N. Rangasamy</a> (<a href="/wiki/All_India_N.R._Congress" title="All India N.R. Congress">AINRC</a>)</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td><td class="navbox-list" style="border-left:2px solid #fdfdfd;padding:0px;width:10em;"><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_of_Punjab_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="List of chief ministers of Punjab (India)">Punjab</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Bhagwant_Mann" title="Bhagwant Mann">Bhagwant Mann</a> (<a href="/wiki/Aam_Aadmi_Party" title="Aam Aadmi Party">AAP</a>)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_of_Rajasthan" title="List of chief ministers of Rajasthan">Rajasthan</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Bhajan_Lal_Sharma" title="Bhajan Lal Sharma">Bhajan Lal Sharma</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a>)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_of_Sikkim" title="List of chief ministers of Sikkim">Sikkim</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Prem_Singh_Tamang" title="Prem Singh Tamang">Prem Singh Tamang</a> (<a href="/wiki/Sikkim_Krantikari_Morcha" title="Sikkim Krantikari Morcha">SKM</a>)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_of_Tamil_Nadu" title="List of chief ministers of Tamil Nadu">Tamil Nadu</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/M._K._Stalin" title="M. 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Party">BJP</a>)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_of_Uttar_Pradesh" title="List of chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh">Uttar Pradesh</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Yogi_Adityanath" title="Yogi Adityanath">Yogi Adityanath</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a>)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_of_Uttarakhand" title="List of chief ministers of Uttarakhand">Uttarakhand</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Pushkar_Singh_Dhami" title="Pushkar Singh Dhami">Pushkar Singh Dhami</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a>)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_of_West_Bengal" title="List of chief ministers of West Bengal">West Bengal</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mamata Banerjee</a> (<a href="/wiki/All_India_Trinamool_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="All India Trinamool Congress">AITC</a>)</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>See also: <div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_longest-serving_Indian_chief_ministers" title="List of longest-serving Indian chief ministers">Longest-serving chief ministers</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_female_chief_ministers_in_India" title="List of female chief ministers in India">Female chief ministers</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_from_the_Bharatiya_Janata_Party" 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