Mamata Banerjee is the 11th and current Chief Minister of West
Bengal. She is the first woman to hold the office. Banerjee founded All India
Trinamool Congress in 1997 and became chairperson, after separating from the
Indian National Congress. She is usually called "Didi" (meaning elder
sister). She is often cited by the media and critics to be as "megalomaniac,
eccentric and populist politician".
Banerjee pulled off a landslide victory for the All India
Trinamul Congress (AITMC ) or (TMC) in West Bengal by defeating the world's
longest-serving democratically-elected communist government, the Communist
Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front government, bringing to an end 34 years
of Left Front rule in the state.
Banerjee previously served as a Minister of Railways twice,
Minister of Coal, and Minister of State for Human Resource Development,
Department of Youth Affairs and Sports and Women and Child Development in the
cabinet of the Indian government. She opposed forceful land acquisition for
industrialisation by the then communist government in West Bengal for Special
Economic Zones at the cost of agriculturalists and farmers.In 2012, the Time
magazine named her one of the "100 Most influential People in the
World"
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