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Who is Mamata Banerjee

Mamata Banerjee

About Mamata Banerjee

Who is Mamata Banerjee

The Chief Minister of West Bengal since 2011, Mamata Banerjee is an Indian politician, previously a member of the Congress and later, founded the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC). The TMC supremo has been elected to Parliament seven times before she contested in the West Bengal Assembly elections. In the state Assembly, she represents the Bhabanipur constituency.

A painter and a poet by interest, Banerjee established herself as a major force in West Bengal in 2011 after ending 34 years of CPI(M) rule in the state. She led her party to victory in 34 of the 42 seats in the 2014
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DA crisis: Calcutta HC directs govt to hold talks with agitating employees

The state government should take some decision to resolve the complications arising of the dearness allowance payments, court said

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Updated On : 06 Apr 2023 | 2:05 PM IST

Mamata greets Rahul in morning and attacks him in evening: Sambit Patra

Patra was addressing a press meet at the new state BJP office in Salt Lake

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Updated On : 03 Apr 2023 | 3:58 PM IST

West Bengal violence: BJP demands Mamata Banerjee's resignation, NIA probe

The Hooghly MP also accused the TMC supremo of playing "appeasement politics" and claimed that "Hindus are under threat in West Bengal"

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Updated On : 03 Apr 2023 | 3:29 PM IST

Mamata is role model for how law and order situation worsens: Anurag Thakur

Hitting out at the West Bengal government over the death of a Bharatiya Janata Party worker in the state, Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Sunday accused Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of being biased

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Updated On : 02 Apr 2023 | 11:53 AM IST

Mamata Didi is sleeping...Jungleraj has returned: Thakur on clashes in WB

Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Sunday hit out at the Bihar and West Bengal governments, over the communal clashes in the states during the Ram Navami festivities

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Updated On : 02 Apr 2023 | 10:34 AM IST

Section 144 CrPC imposed after unrest in Howrah: Shah talks to WB governor

The governor also said those who resort to violence under the illusion that they can hoodwink the people will soon realise they are in a fool's paradise

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Updated On : 31 Mar 2023 | 8:54 PM IST

BJP, right wing org behind Ram Navami violence in Howrah: Mamata Banerjee

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday claimed that the BJP along with other right-wing organisations was responsible for violence in the industrial town of Howrah on Ram Navami.

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Updated On : 31 Mar 2023 | 3:17 PM IST

BJP hires goons from outside state to orchestrate communal riots: Mamata

"Why did they change the route and take the unauthorised route to particularly target and attack one community?" she added

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Updated On : 31 Mar 2023 | 9:54 AM IST

Mamata gives 'aur ek dafa Delhi chalo' call to oust BJP from power

TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, who ended her 30-hour-long sit-in here to protest the Centre's alleged discrimination against West Bengal, called for an "aur ek dafa Delhi chalo" (another march to Delhi)

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Updated On : 30 Mar 2023 | 10:45 PM IST

Mamata sits overnight in dharna against govt, raises political temperature

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sat overnight in front of Dalit icon Dr B R Ambedkar's statue on Red Road in the heart of the metropolis, surrounded by a cohort of TMC leaders

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Updated On : 30 Mar 2023 | 1:34 PM IST

'Mamata's claim of illegally-appointed staff holding DA protest baseless'

Banerjee claimed that those who secured jobs during the previous regime by virtue of recommendations made on pieces of paper by the ruling party leaders were holding agitations over DA

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Updated On : 30 Mar 2023 | 12:04 PM IST

Let's oust BJP without thinking of who will be leader after polls: Mamata

"There will be a game and we will also participate in that. In Uttar Pradesh, we will play the match jointly with (Samajwadi Party chief) Akhilesh Yadav

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Updated On : 30 Mar 2023 | 9:32 AM IST

Mamata on 2-day dharna to protest Centre's 'discrimination' against Bengal

West Bengal CM said the two-day sit-in that she started here on Wednesday to protest the BJP-led Union government's alleged discriminatory attitude against the state was on behalf of her party

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Updated On : 29 Mar 2023 | 8:39 PM IST

Mamata starts dharna to protest Centre's 'discrimination' against Bengal

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday started her two-day sit-in demonstration in Kolkata to protest the BJP-led Union government's alleged discriminatory attitude against the state

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Updated On : 29 Mar 2023 | 1:32 PM IST

TMC MPs to protest against Centre in Parl over issue of 'Save Democracy'

Trinamool Congress MPs will stage a protest at Ambedkar Statue in the Parliament which coincides with a two-day dharna by the party's supremo Mamata Banerjee who will protest against the Centre

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Updated On : 29 Mar 2023 | 10:20 AM IST

Bengal CM Banerjee launches flagship road 'Pathashree-Rastashree' project

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurated the 'Pathashree-Rastashree' project in Bengal's Singur on Tuesday

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Updated On : 29 Mar 2023 | 9:05 AM IST

Mamata Banerjee to launch scheme for development of rural roads in Bengal

Twenty two districts will benefit from this project as 8,767 roads have been approved under this scheme

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Updated On : 28 Mar 2023 | 12:41 PM IST

Mamata meets Patnaik, calls to strengthen India's federal structure

Mamata Banerjee also thanked Odisha CM for the allotment of land for the West Bengal government guest house in Puri

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Updated On : 24 Mar 2023 | 8:41 AM IST

MGNREGS dues: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee may shift protest to Kolkata

The state claims that the Centre owes Rs 7,500 crore, of which labour wages alone amount to Rs 2,744 crore

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Updated On : 22 Mar 2023 | 8:44 PM IST

PM Modi, Mamata have deal to defame Rahul, Congress: Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury

Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury alleged that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have a deal to "defame the image of Rahul Gandhi and the Congress

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Updated On : 20 Mar 2023 | 11:41 AM IST