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    Mamata Banerjee

    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 to rename 'Karmashree' after Mahatma Gandhi: A double whammy for Congress?

      While the BJP has stripped the Congress of one of its most enduring UPA-era legacies, Mamata has stepped in to claim the Gandhian symbolism that once belonged almost exclusively to the grand old party.

    • TMC for door-to-door scrutiny after 45,000 voters deleted from Mamata Banerjee's assembly seat during SIR exercise

      Bhabanipur, a dense urban constituency, has a sizeable population of residents originally from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Odisha.

    • Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee urges women to fight against SIR with kitchen tools

      West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said that she herself had not filled out SIR enumeration form so far.

    • Can Owaisi's Bihar playbook disrupt West Bengal? The formula worrying Mamata Banerjee ahead of 2026 polls

      Owaisi’s renewed outreach coupled with anger over OBC quotas and the Waqf law signal a challenge to Mamata Banerjee’s long-held assumption that minority voters have nowhere else to go.

    • Mamata Banerjee demands PM Modi's apology over 'Bankim da' remark in Lok Sabha

      Banerjee said the PM was not even born when the country achieved Independence and yet chose to address one of Bengal's greatest cultural icons casually.

    • OPINION | West Bengal Polls 2026: SIR politics and voter purges raise new risks for Mamata Banerjee

      The SIR-driven voter purge has intensified political tensions in Bengal, giving the BJP a new narrative while allowing Mamata Banerjee to rally supporters. Yet the exercise risks alienating key communities and may not significantly erode TMC’s core base

    • Calcutta High Court sets aside single bench order terminating services of 32,000 teachers; Mamata Banerjee hails verdict

      The appointment of the teachers, who were recruited in 2016 through the Teachers' Eligibility Test (TET) panel of 2014 by the West Bengal Board of Primary Education, was challenged by a group of unsuccessful candidates who alleged recruitment fraud.

    • TMC MLA Humayun Kabir vows December 6 'shilanyas' of Babri-style mosque in Bengal despite govt concerns

      Rebel TMC MLA Humayun Kabir claimed 2,000 volunteers would be on the ground to ensure "no inconvenience to any community" and teased "a surprise" at the event.

    • West Bengal SIR: Why Mamata Banerjee's biggest poll offensive could backfire for Trinamool

      As SIR becomes Bengal's defining political flashpoint ahead of the 2026 Assembly polls, the question is whether this strategy strengthens the Trinamool, or risks turning into a Bihar-style misfire.

    • West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee alleges 'sabotage' after helicopter grounded, transport minister passes buck to service provider

      State Transport minister Snehasish Chakraborty, however, blamed the helicopter service provider for the procedural lapse

    • 'If they try to touch Bengal, we will shake the entire country': Mamata Banerjee's warning for BJP amid SIR row

      "They are using Artificial Intelligence to create duplicate voters. This is BJP's new plan," Banerjee said as she intensified her attack against SIR exercise being undertaken by the Election Commission.

    • News Live: If you target me in Bengal, I will shake the nation, Mamata Banerjee warns BJP amid ongoing SIR

      Addressing the crowd, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said the Election Commission's job is to remain impartial and not be a BJP commission.

    • Questionable behavior: Mamata Banerjee writes to EC over SIR data work outsourcing, BJP responds

      In consistent with her previous demonstrations against the exercise, Banerjee alleged that the move may be aimed at serving “vested interests”, while the BJP swiftly countered her charges, accusing the Trinamool of trying to pressure the poll body.

    • West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee seeks immediate intervention of EC on SIR: 'Unplanned, chaotic, dangerous'

      The West Bengal CM shared her earlier letter to CEC Gyanesh Kumar on X, in which she wrote: "I am compelled to write to you as the situation surrounding the ongoing SIR has reached a deeply alarming stage."

    • Bihar Elections: Mamata Banerjee should be 'face' of INDIA bloc to counter BJP, says TMC

      Bandyopadhyay dismissed suggestions that the BJP’s strong performance in neighbouring Bihar could translate into gains in Bengal.

    • Mamata Banerjee accuses BJP of spreading NRC fear following Bengal man's suicide, triggers saffron retort

      Demanding that the Centre put an end to what she called a "heartless game," Banerjee reiterated that Bengal would "never allow NRC" and would protect the dignity and rights of its people.

    • Major reshuffle: West Bengal transfers 527 officers ahead of SIR of electoral rolls

      Notifications for transfers of 61 IAS and 145 WBCS (Executive) officers were uploaded during the first half of the day,

    • SIR will lead to deletion of names of only Bangladeshi Muslim infiltrators: Suvendu Adhikari

      Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari said Indian Muslims need not worry about the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls by the Election Commission

    • Durgapur gang-rape: 5 held; victim's father says West Bengal under 'Aurangzeb's rule'

      Police said five men attacked the woman and her male friend were attacked between 8 pm and 8.45 pm, snatched her phone when she tried to call for help, and took turns in raping her.

    • North Bengal floods: Mamata Banerjee blames Bhutan for disaster, seeks compensation

      The chief minister also reiterated her demand for the creation of an Indo-Bhutan Joint River Commission, insisting that West Bengal should be a member.

    • OPINION | TMC and BJP exchange fire ahead of West Bengal’s do-or-die 2026 election

      BJP is expected to soon bring in an unprecedented 1200 leaders to campaign in the state. Will that be enough to offset the combination of Mamata Banerjee’s appeal and TMC’s superior ground game?

    • Mamata Banerjee lied about the girl being out at 12.30 am: BJP on Durgapur gang-rape case

      According to officials, the student was allegedly gang-raped late Friday evening in a forested area behind the hospital after she stepped out of the campus with a male friend around 8 p.m. The survivor's father alleged that her male companion fled during the assault.

    • 'Painful': Odisha CM condemns medical student's rape in Bengal, urges Mamata to take action

      A medical college student from Odisha was allegedly raped by unidentified men in West Bengal's Paschim Bardhaman district.

    • Another BJP leader attacked while distributing aid, party says, 'In Mamata's Bengal, only mafia is safe'

      Manoj Oraon, who sustained injuries in the incident, claimed that a group of TMC workers attacked him and his supporters when they were distributing relief items among flood-affected villagers in his constituency Kumargram.

    • 'You are PM of India, not of BJP': West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee hits out at PM Modi

      Banerjee made the comments in an X post after visiting flood- and landslide-hit areas of North Bengal where at least 28 people died.

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