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    Mamata Banerjee is the ninth and current Chief Minister of West Bengal. The 66-year-old leader began her political career in the 1970s as part of the Congress but later left the party due to differences in political views with the then West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee president Somendra Nath Mitra. After splitting away from the Congress, she founded the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) and currently serves as the chairperson of the party. Popularly known as 'didi' in Bengal, she dismantled 34 years of communist rule in her home state of West Bengal after a landslide victory in the 2011 state assembly elections. Since then, she has been holding the CM post in the state for three consecutive terms. Before becoming the chief minister of the state, she held several important portfolios in the government of India. In 1991, she was appointed as the Union minister of state for human resources development, youth affairs and sports; and women and child development under the Congress government at the Centre. In 1999, she joined the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government and was appointed minister for railways. In 2004, she got the coal and mines portfolio and in 2009, she became the railway minister for the second time. More

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    • Mamata advances Banglar Yuva Sathi scheme launch; West Bengal youth to get Rs 1,500 monthly

      The scheme targets unemployed youth aged between 21 and 40 years who have passed the Madhyamik (Class 10 state board examination). Applicants must be residents of West Bengal.

    • FM Nirmala Sitharaman slams Bengal govt over law and order, says state run by 'bomb culture'

      FM did not hold back on matters of women's safety either, referencing the RG Kar rape case and other instances of sexual violence in Bengal

    • West Bengal elections: Congress snaps decade-old alliance with Left, to contest on all 294 seats alone

      The Congress is set to field its candidates on all 294 seats in the poll-bound state, making the Bengal Assembly elections a four-cornered contest.

    • OPINION | Mamata Banerjee, the first sitting CM to argue a case in SC, seizes the initiative from BJP

      After 15 years in power, and weighed down by the weight of anti-incumbency, Banerjee showed her political savvy by converting the SIR issue into one of Bengali self-respect. It forces BJP into a reactive position

    • Mamata's poetic protest: West Bengal CM pens 26 poems against SIR amid legal and political battle

      Mamata Banerjee has taken her opposition to the Election Commission’s SIR to a new level, penning a book of 26 poems that she says gives voice to the "harassment" and "fear" facing citizens.

    • 'Justice crying behind closed doors': Mamata Banerjee slams EC over SIR in Supreme Court

      The Supreme Court is hearing a batch of pleas against the SIR exercise in West Bengal. In her petition, Banerjee has sought the quashing of various directions and instructions issued by the ECI.

    • West Bengal SIR Supreme Court Hearing: Attempts to 'bulldoze' Bengal people, alleges Mamata Banerjee, SC asks EC to exercise caution

      According to media reports, Banerjee, who holds a law degree, may personally appear before the court to present her case.

    • 'TMC will back any motion by opposition to impeach CEC Gyanesh Kumar': Mamata Banerjee

      On Monday, the TMC chief and her delegation walked out of a meeting with Kumar and other election commissioners on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) issue, alleging humiliation by the poll panel chief.

    • Mamata Banerjee to appear before Supreme Court over Bengal SIR plea today, likely to argue the matter herself

      The matter will be heard by a bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi.

    • Mamata Banerjee may argue SIR case herself as Supreme Court takes up challenge to electoral roll revision

      Banerjee filed her petition on January 28, naming the Election Commission (EC) and the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer as respondents.

    • Mamata Banerjee likely to appear before Supreme Court over Bengal SIR plea

      The TMC supremo, who has been demanding a halt to the voters’ list cleanup exercise in West Bengal, is in Delhi along with SIR-affected families from her state. She reached Delhi on Sunday.

    • ‘They humiliated us’: Mamata Banerjee walks out of meet with poll body, EC sources reject charges

      Speaking to the media after walking out of the meeting, the TMC chief said that the delegation decided to boycott the meeting as, according to her, their grievances were not heard.

    • "I will fight, our party will fight": Mamata Banerjee to meet CEC Gyanesh Kumar over SIR in West Bengal

      She also alleged mistreatment of people from Bengal in the national capital Delhi and criticised the conduct of authorities, saying her party would raise these issues firmly and seek answers from the institutions concerned.

    • WB CM Mamata Banerjee to meet CEC Gyanesh Kumar today in Delhi over SIR

      The CM has filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the ongoing SIR in West Bengal

    • 'Maa, Maati, Manush no longer safe in Bengal': Amit Shah slams Mamata Banerjee over misgovernance

      Addressing the BJP Karyakarta Sammelan in North 24 Parganas, Shah criticised the Mamata government over the deteriorating law and order situation.

    • Can BJP break Mamata's grip on Bengal in 2026?

      As West Bengal prepares for assembly elections in March-April 2026, the BJP faces an uphill battle to dislodge Mamata Banerjee's TMC from power despite corruption allegations and law-and-order concerns that have historically failed to sway the state’s voters

    • West Bengal elections: Signs of churn in Mamata Banerjee's biggest vote bank as minority unity talks gather pace

      The rise of new Muslim-focussed alliances signals a potential disruption within Mamata Banerjee's most reliable vote bank that has powered its dominance for over a decade in West Bengal.

    • I-PAC received Rs 13.5 crore loan in 2021 from a Rohtak firm that does not exist: Report

      Surprisingly, in another declaration dated June 27, 2025, the I-PAC said it had “repaid” Rs 1 crore of the Rs 13.50 crore loan in 2024-25 and there was an outstanding amount of Rs 12.50 crore.

    • 'Please protect Constitution, democracy, judiciary, history and geography of country from disaster': Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee urges CJI Surya Kant - WATCH

      "Please protect the Constitution, democracy, judiciary, history and geography of the country from disaster,” West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said, without elaborating.

    • 'Constitution humiliated': ED flags 'pattern of obstruction' by Mamata Banerjee in plea before Supreme Court

      Terming it a rare case warranting constitutional intervention, the ED alleged a pattern of obstruction and intimidation during its I-PAC money laundering probe.

    • 'Solely of deletion and exclusion': Mamata Banerjee writes to CEC Gyanesh Kumar on ‘mechanical’ SIR in West Bengal

      In a three-page letter written on Saturday to the Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, Banerjee alleged that the SIR of electoral rolls in the state was being conducted with bias and insensitivity.

    • West Bengal govt files caveat in Supreme Court: How ED–I-PAC row snowballed into high-stakes legal battle

      A caveat, filed before constitutional courts, is meant to ensure that no adverse direction is issued in the absence of the concerned party.

    • 'Overreach, blatant disregard to law': What ED's plea seeking CBI FIR against Mamata Banerjee, Bengal police said

      According to the petition, the agency invoked the court’s writ jurisdiction to “instil public confidence” and to immediately stop what it termed as “over-action” by the state police and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

    • Did Mamata Banerjee cross the red line during ED's I-PAC search operation? What law says

      Did Mamata Banerjee’s intervention during ED raids amount to a political protest or legal obstruction? A look at what the rules state and where criminal liability could arise.

    • Trinamool vs Centre over ED raids: How I-PAC became central to Mamata Banerjee's Bengal strategy

      The ED raids on I-PAC premises and Mamata Banerjee's dramatic intervention have thrown the spotlight on how a political consultancy has quietly become central to the Trinamool Congress' electoral machine.

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