Short biography of a Great Leader of WEST BENGAL

Short biography of Leader Mamta Banerjee
Mamta Banerjee ( Also known as “DIDI” ) born on 5 January 1955 in kolkata city.She has completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Calcutta University in Arts. Later studied B.Ed. was done from the Sikshayatan College, Calcutta and M.A. from the University of Calcutta respectively.she completed LL.B. from the Jogesh Chandra Choudhury College of Law, Kolkata.
She started her political career in year 1970s with congress party, she has been General Secretary of Mahila Congress (I), West Bengal, from 1976 to 1980.In the 1984 general election, she became one of India’s youngest parliamentarians ever, beating veteran Communist politician Somnath Chatterjee, from the Jadavpur parliamentary Constituency in West Bengal. She also became the General-Secretary of the All India Youth Congress. Losing her seat in 1989 in an anti-Congress wave, she was back in 1991 general elections, having settled into the Calcutta South constituency. She retained the Kolkata South seat in the 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004 and 2009 general elections.
In year 1991 which the period of Roa government she was Union Minister of State for Human Resources Development, Youth Affairs and Sports, and Women and Child Development.
In 1997, Mamata Banerjee split the Congress Party in West Bengal and established the All India Trinamool Congress. It quickly became the primary opposition to the long-standing Communist government in the state. On 11 December 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.
In 1999, she joined the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government and was allocated the Railways Ministry.
In early 2001, after making allegations against the BJP, she walked out of the NDA cabinet and allied with the Congress Party for West Bengal’s 2001 elections, amidst speculation that the move could unseat the Communist government. She returned to the cabinet in January 2004, holding the Ministry of Coal and Mines portfolios until the 2004 Elections, in which she was the only Trinamool Congress member to win a Parliament seat from West Bengal.
Trinamool congress performed well in the 2009 parliamentary election, bagging 19 MP seats, among them 5 women (including her), reiterating her faith in the Women’s Reservation Bill. It’s allies Congress and SUCI also got 6 and 1 MP seats respectively. This is the best performance by any opposition party in West Bengal since the start of the left regime. Till date the congress victory of 16 seats in 1984, by the sympathy vote after the death of Mrs. Indira Gandhi, was considered the best opposition show. Now she won the chair of CHIEF MINISTER OF WEST BENGAL. I Congratulate her............DR. MAYA SHANKAR JHA, SOCIAL WORKER, KOLKATA.