Mamata Banerjee
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Mamata Banerjee is an Indian politician and lawyer who is currently serving as the chief minister of West Bengal since 20 May 2011; she is the first woman to hold the office. The founder and president of the All India Trinamool Congress, she previously served as a Union Cabinet Minister and is also the current leader of the house in West Bengal's Legislative Assembly.
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- Governor
- List M. K. Narayanan , D. Y. Patil (additional charge) , Keshari Nath Tripathi , Jagdeep Dhankhar , La. Ganesan (additional charge) , C. V. Ananda Bose , R. N. Ravi
- Cabinet
- Banerjee I , Banerjee II , Banerjee III
- Preceded by
- Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
- Succeeded by
- Suvendu Adhikari
- Ministry and departments
- Home & Hill Affairs Personnel & Administrative Reforms Finance & Excise Planning Statistics Program Implementation Health and Family Welfare Land and Land Reforms Refugee and Rehabilitation Information & Cultural Affairs Minority Affairs & Madrassah Education Sports & Youth Affairs
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Banerjee
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- India
- Place of birth
- Kolkata
- Occupation
- poet
- Political party
- Indian National Congress
- Languages spoken
- Bangla
- Native language
- Bangla
- Religion
- Hinduism
- Award
- Time 100
- Image
- Mamata Banerjee - Kolkata 2011-12-08 7531 (cropped).JPG
- Residence
- Kolkata
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- date of birth
- 1955-01-05
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- name in native language
- মমতা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়
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- writing language
- Bangla
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Encyclopedic overview
Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly In office 3 October 2021 (2021-10-03) – 4 May 2026 (2026-05-04) Preceded bySovandeb Chattopadhyay Succeeded bySuvendu Adhikari ConstituencyBhabanipur In office 16 November 2011 (2011-11-16) – 2 May 2021 (2021-05-02) Preceded bySubrata Bakshi Succeeded bySovandeb Chattopadhyay ConstituencyBhabanipur President of the All India Trinamool Congress Incumbent
Assumed office 2001 (2001) Preceded byAjit Kumar Panja
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