Mamata Banerjee: Writer, poet, nation’s Didi and indomitable fighter

New Delhi: Congratulations began pouring in from all corners for Trinamool Congress supremo and Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with the get together’s victory imminent in West Bengal meeting election, counting of votes for which is presently underway. According to tendencies accessible for 284 out of 292 constituencies within the state, the get together was main in 202 seats, whereas the BJP was main in 77. However, Mamata misplaced the Nandigram battle towards her former protege-turned-BJP rival Suvendu Adhikari in Nandigram by over 1600 votes.

Mamata selected Nandigram over her residence turf Bhabanipur seat

Making the facility battle extra fascinating, Mamata selected Nandigram over her residence turf Bhabanipur seat this time to check her destiny within the 2021 elections. It was the agitation in Nandigram and Singur towards the Left authorities’s land acquisition insurance policies that made Mamata Banerjee the Chief Minister of West Bengal.

Further, Mamata’s ballot marketing campaign this time obtained a brand new dimension with a wheelchair after she suffered an harm in March, 2021 whereas campaigning in Nandigram. It is price mentioning that the West Bengal Chief Minister spared no dais to launch scathing assaults on Prime Minister Modi. However, the Modi-Mamata battle was fairly seen even earlier than the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. She performed an instrumental position in bringing collectively all opposition events towards the Centre previous to the 2019 normal elections.

The seventh-term MP additionally has been among the many first key figures who closely criticised the central authorities in points ranging from demonetisation to Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and lockdown to gas costs. Her preventing spirit and mass attraction have made her one the tallest opposition figures within the present political area.

Mamata Banerjee began her political profession as a Youth Congress employee within the Nineteen Seventies. She rapidly rose the ranks and turned the final secretary of Mahila Congress and later All India Youth Congress. In 1984 she was elected as a member of parliament within the eighth Lok Sabha turning into one in every of India`s youngest parliamentarians. She based the All India Trinamool Congress in 1997 after a disagreement with Congress.

Mamata labored with three PMs

Mamata Banerjee labored with three Prime Ministers together with PV Narasimha Rao, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Dr Manmohan Singh. She had been a Union Minister in each National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) governments and held portfolios like Human Resource Development, Youth Affairs and Sports, Women and Child Development, Coal and Mines and the Railways. 

Notably, she was the primary girl to turn out to be a railway minister within the nation. The Time Magazine named her among the many 100 most influential folks on the earth in 2012.

Hailing from a lower-middle-class household, Mamata Banerjee labored as a milk sales space vendor to battle poverty. Her father handed away as a result of lack of therapy when she was simply 17. The fighter in her by no means let the obstacles dominate her. She continued her schooling and earned a Bachelor’s diploma in History, a Master’s diploma in Islamic History and levels in Education and Law from the University of Calcutta. She additionally labored as a stenographer and a non-public tutor earlier than becoming a member of full-time politics.

Another disposition of Mamata Banerjee is her minimalist way of life. Despite being the Chief Minister, she nonetheless lives in her ancestral terracotta-tiled roof home at Kolkata`s Harish Chatterjee Street. White cotton sarees having mono-colour borders and slippers are all that outline the style assertion of Mamata Banerjee.

A self-taught painter, poet and author

The West Bengal Chief Minister can also be a self-taught painter, poet and author. She has authored greater than 100 books. She can also be tech-savvy and stays energetic on social media. The Trinamool Supremo can also be recognized for her walkathons or marches. Here it must be talked about that she walks five-six kilometres on a treadmill on daily basis. 

Meanwhile, the ‘Khela’ of energy in West Bengal will come to an finish right now with Mamata Banerjee more likely to return because the Chief Ministr of Bengal for the third consecuive time period. 

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