| Names |
MAMATA BANERJEE |
| Date of
Birth |
January 05, 1955 |
| Identity |
Indian Politician
from West Bengal |
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Date-wise Events / Works |
- 1997: She founded the party
All India Trinamool Congress (AITMC or TMC) and became its
chairperson, after separating from the Indian National
Congress.
- December 11, 1998: She
controversially held a Samajwadi Party MP, Daroga Prasad
Saroj, by the collar and dragged him out of the well of the
Lok Sabha to prevent him from protesting against the Women's
Reservation Bill.
- 1999: She joined the
BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government and
was allocated the Railways Ministry.
- 2001: After the Tehelka's
exposure of Operation West End, Banerjee walked out of the
NDA cabinet and allied with the Congress Party for West
Bengal's 2001 elections.
- January 2004: She returned
to the NDA government, and held the Coal and Mines
portfolio.
- May 20, 2004: She was
the only Trinamool Congress member to win a Parliament seat
from West Bengal in the general elections.
- October 20, 2005: She
protested against the forceful land acquisition in the name
of industrial development policy of the Buddhadeb
Bhattacharjee government in West Bengal.
- August 04, 2006: She hurled
her resignation papers at the deputy speaker in Lok Sabha.
The provocation was the speaker (Somnath Chatterjee)'s
rejection of her adjournment motion on illegal infiltration
by Bangladeshis in West Bengal.
- May 22, 2009: She became
the Minister of Railways, Govt of India, on this day.
- May 19, 2011: She retired
as the Minister of Railways, Govt of India, on this day.
- May 20, 2011: She became
the Chief Minister of West Bengalon this day. She is the
first woman to hold this office.
- 2011: She registered
a landslide victory for the TMC Congress alliance in West
Bengal by defeating the 34-year old Communist Party of India
(Marxist)-led Left Front government, until then the world's
longest-serving democratically-elected communist government.
- September 2012: Bloomberg
Markets magazine listed her among the 50 most influential
people in the world of finance.
- September 18, 2012: She
declared her party had withdrawn support from UPA and ran
independently.
- October 17, 2012: In a
statement on this day, she attributed the increasing
incidence of rape in the country to "more free interaction
between men and women"; she was criticised in the national
media for these statements.
- 2012: Time magazine named
her one of the "100 Most influential People in the World".
- May 2013: She was voted as
India's most honest politician in an internal poll by
members of India Against Corruption, India's largest
anti-corruption coalition.
- April 30, 2015: The
representative of UNICEF India congratulated the government
for making Nadia the first Open Defecation Free district in
the country.
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| Special
Achievements / Events |
- She has been Chief Minister of West Bengal since 2011.
- She is often referred to as Didi.
- She previously served as the Minister of Railways twice
and is also the first woman Railway Minister of India,
Minister of Coal, and Minister of State for Human Resource
Development, Department of Youth Affairs and Sports and
Women and Child Development in the cabinet of the Indian
government.
- She opposed forceful land acquisition for
industrialisation by the then communist government in West
Bengal for Special Economic Zones at the cost of
agriculturalists and farmers.
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