Mamata Banerjee-cm,w.b

 

Mamata Banerjee

Chief Minister, West Bengal

Father's Name	Late Promileswar Banerjee
Mother's Name	Smt. Gayetri Banerjee
Date of Birth	05 Jan 1955
Place of Birth	Kolkata (West Bengal)
Marital Status	Unmarried
Educational Qualifications	M.A., B.Ed., LL.B., Trained in Work Education, Educated at Calcutta University, West Bengal
Profession	Advocate Social Worker
Permanent Address	30-B, Harish Chatterjee Street, Kolkata-700 026 West Bengal
	Tels. (033) 24753000 Fax. (033) 24540880
	E-mail : cm-wb@nic.in
Positions Held
1970-80	General-Secretary, Mahila Congress (I), West Bengal
1978-81	Secretary, District Congress Committee (Indira)[D.C.C. (I)], Calcutta South
1984	Elected to 8th Lok Sabha
	General-Secretary, All India Youth Congress (I)
1985-87	Member, Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
1987-88	Member, National Council, All India Youth Congress (I)
	Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Home Affairs
	Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Human Resource Development
1988	Member, Executive Committee, Congress Parliamentary Party [C.P.P. (I)]
1989	Member, Executive Committee, Pradesh Congress Committee [P.C.C. (I)], West Bengal
1990	President, Youth Congress, West Bengal
1991	Re-elected to 10th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
1991-93	Union Minister of State, Human Resource Development, Department of Youth Affairs and Sports; and Women and Child Development
1993-96	Member, Committee on Home Affairs
1995-96	Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Home Affairs
	Member, Committee on Public Accounts
1996	Re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (3rd term)
1996-97	Member, Committee on Home Affairs
	Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Home Affairs
1997	Founded All India Trinamool Congress and elected Chairperson, All India Trinamool Congress
1998	Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (4th term)
1998-99	Chairman, Committee on Railways
	Member, General Purposes Committee
	Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Home Affairs
1999	Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (5th term)
	Leader, All India Trinamool Congress Parliamentary Party, Lok Sabha
	Member, General Purposes Committee
13 Oct. 1999 - 16 Mar. 2001	Union Cabinet Minister, Railways
2001-2003	Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Industries
8 Sep. 2003 - 8 Jan. 2004	Union Cabinet Minister (without any portfolio)
9 Jan. 2004- May 2004	Union Cabinet Minister, Coal and Mines
2004	Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha( 6th term)
	Member, Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law & Justice
5 Aug. 2006	Member, Committee on Home Affairs
5 Aug. 2007	Member, Committee on Home Affairs
2009	Re-elected to 15th Lok Sabha (7th term)
31 May 2009	Union Cabinet Minister, Railways
	Leader, All India Trinamool Congress Parliamentary Party, Lok Sabha
20 May 2011 onwards	Sworn-in as the first woman Chief Minister of West Bengal.
Books Published
In Bengali : (i) Upalabdhi; (ii) Janatar Darbare; (iii) Maa; (iv)Pallabi; (v) Manavik; (vi) Motherland ; (vii) Crocodile Island; (viii) Trinamool; (ix) Sishu Sathi; (x) Anubhuti; (xi)Abishasya; (xii) Janmaini; (xiii) Ekantee; (xiv) Ashubho Shanket;(xv) Jago Banglaa; (xvi) Ganotantre Lajja; (xvii) Anoson Keno; (xviii) Soroni; (xix) Langol; (xx) Andolaner Katha; (xxi) Maa-Mati-Manush; (xxii) Ajab Chora; (xxiii) Ek Guchho Bhavana; (xxiv)  Nandi-Maa; (xxv) Netai; (xxvi) Cholo-Jai In English :  (xxvii) Struggle for Existence; (xxviii) Smile; (xxviv) Dark Horizon;  (xxx) Slaughter of Democracy
Literary Artistic & Scientific Accomplishments
Given music and written lyrics for Bengali songs and received Golden Disc
Social And Cultural Activities
Connected with different social and human rights organisations to promote the welfare of poor, children and women; providing free legal aid to the poor and working for the protection of human rights; organised various health camps for mothers and children
Special Interests
Protecting human rights
Favourite Pastime and Recreation
Writing books and songs; painting and music
Countries Visited
Widely travelled
Other Information
Represented the country in (i) in U.N. General Assembly; (ii) as a woman parliamentarian at World Women Round Table Conference, Russia; and (iii) World Youth Conference, Vietnam; attended the Working Women Conference of ILO and ICFTU at Kuala Lumpur; observed Dharna in 1995 for 21 days to restore Human Rights; protested against atrocities on women and lock up deaths in the country, specially in West Bengal.     Mamata Banerjee Born On: January 5, 1955 Born In: Kolkata, West Bengal Career: Politician A women who uprooted the 34-year rooted communist rule in West Bengal - Mamata Banerjee is an iron lady with a single-minded approach to her destiny. From rabble-rousing politics to becoming the Chief Minister of West Bengal, she has proved her strength and will-power to rewrite the political history of her state. Often found actively addressing open-air rallies and dharnas, Mamata raises a non-compromise attitude towards achieving her goals and this is really her strength. Her protest and fight against the Singur, Nandigram and against forceful land acquisition made her a popular leader among the people of West Bengal. Her simple white cotton sari with a cotton bag slung on her shoulders makes her different from other leaders. Her ability to motivate people with rousing speeches made her popular among the people of West Bengal. Her powerful speeches delivered with quotes from Tagore and other poets are well in line with the grass root imagery that helped drag commoners towards her. Early Life Mamata Banerjee was born on 5 January 1955, in Kolkata, West Bengal to Gayetri and Promileswar Banerjee. She belonged to a lower middle-class family and started her political career with the Congress. She jumped and danced on the bonnet of Jaiprakash Narayan's car as a reaction to the riffraff of the government and this was when she only a college-going girl. She completed her graduation in History at the Jogamaya Devi College in southern Kolkata and took up a Master's degree in Islamic History from the University of Calcutta. She continued to pursue her education and finished another degree at the Shri Shikshayatan College. This was followed by taking up a law degree from the Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Law College, Kolkata. Career Mamata Banerjee entered into politics as a Congress member and in the 1970s at a young age became the General Secretary of the state Mahila Congress (1976-80). She competed against veteran communist politician SomnathChatterjee in the 1984 general elections from Jadavpur parliamentary constituency in West Bengal and became one of India's youngest parliamentarians ever. She also served as the General-Secretary of the 'All India Youth Congress'. She was the Union Minister of State for Human Resources, Youth Affairs and Sports, and Women and Child Development in the Narasimha Rao led government in 1991. As a protest against the government's indifference towards her proposals for the development of sports, she announced her resignation. She was bold enough to claim that she wanted a "Clean Congress" and in a private rally in Kolkata she wrapped her shawl around her neck threatening to make a loop out of it. In 1996 she protested against the government's move to increase the price of petrol despite being a union minister in that government. It was because of utter disagreement with her party that she left and founded or established the All India Trinamool Congress which in a short-time became a strong force against the communist government in the state. She joined hands with the NDA government in 1999 and became the Union minister of Railways and fulfilled many of her promises to West Bengal. She introduced 19 new trains in 2000-2001 fiscal year. She resigned from the NDA government in 2001 because of some allegations and returned to the cabinet in 2004 as a Coal and Mines minister. However, Trinamool Congress members were defeated in the West Bengal assembly elections 2006. This was a major setback in her career. Trinamool Congress entered into an alliance with the UPA government and Mamata Banerjee became the Indian Railway minister once again. The 2011 assembly elections were a major turning point in her political career. In these elections the Trinamool Congress won and Mamata Banerjee became the Chief Minister of West Bengal on 20th May, 2011 and the first ever woman Chief Minister of West Bengal. Contributions Mamata Banerjee founded the political party "All India Trinamool Congress". She fought against Tata Motor's plan to construct a plant there. She also fought for against the West Bengal government's plans to deprive 10,000 acres of land for a proposed Special Economic Zone (SEZ). During her first tenure as Railway minister she focused on developing tourism and made a proposal to establish an "Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited" as a tourism project. Timeline 1955: Mamata Banerjee was born in Kolkata. 1976: She becomes the General Secretary of West Bengal Mahila Congress. 1984: She becomes the youngest parliamentarian. 1989: Loses to Malini Bhattacharya from Jadavpore. 1991: Became Lok Sabha member again by defeating CPI-M's BiplabDasgupta1991: Became Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Youth Affairs and Women and Child Development in the Narasimha Rao government. 1997: Formation of the All India Trinamool Congress in Kolkata. 1998: Trinamool Congress comes into existence formally. 1999: Becomes Union minister in the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government. 2001: Quits the NDA. 2001: Returns to the NDA. 2004: Becomes coal and mines minister. 2006: Held a rally against a proposed Tata Motors car project at Singur. 2009: Became Railway Minister in the UPA government. 2011: Became the first ever women Chief Minister of West Bengal by putting an end to the long-rooted communist rule.  Nandigram Protests/Mamata Banerjee: The Nandigram violence was an incident in Nandigram, West Bengal where, on the orders of the Left Front government, more than 4,000 heavily armed police stormed the Nandigram area with the aim of stamping out protests against the West Bengal government’s plans to expropriate 10,000 acres (40 km2) of land for a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) to be developed by the Indonesian-based Salim Group. The police shot dead at least 14 villagers and wounded 70 more. The SEZ controversy started when the government of West Bengal decided that the Salim Group of Indonesia would set up a chemical hub under the SEZ policy at Nandigram, a rural area in the district of Purba Medinipur. The villagers took over the administration of the area and all the roads to the villages were cut off. A front-page story in the Kolkata newspaper, The Telegraph, on 4 January 2007 was headlined, "False alarm sparks clash". According to the newspaper that village council meeting at which the alleged land seizure was to be announced was actually a meeting to declare Nandigram a "clean village", that is, a village in which all the households had access to toilet facilities. The administration was directed to break the Maoist backed Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee's (BUPC) resistance at Nandigram and a massive operation with at least 3,000 policemen along with armed cadre of the Marxist ruling party was launched on 14 March 2007. However, prior information of the impending action had leaked out to the BUPC who amassed a crowd of roughly 2,000 villagers at the entry points into Nandigram with women and children forming the front ranks. In the resulting mayhem, at least 14 people were killed. Many common people were homeless due to this political carnage. A large number of Intellectuals protested on the streets and this incident gave birth of a new hope for movement to ouster the left from government headed by the CPI(M). Mamata Banerjee wrote letters to the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil to stop the violence promoted by CPI(M) in Nandigram.Agitation in Nandigram has subsided, after the State Govt. shelved the proposed chemical hub project.