Mamata Banerjee is the eighth Chief Minister of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal and the first woman to hold this office. She founded the Trinamool Congress in 1998 after splitting from the Indian National Congress and has represented the Bhabanipur constituency in the state assembly since 2011.
When Mamata Banerjee first joined the Congress (I) in the 1970s, she rose to be the General Secretary of the State Mahila Congress (I) from 1976 to 1980. She has previously served as an MP for Kolkata South in the Lok Sabha and was the Union Minister of State for Human Resources Development, Youth Affairs and Sports, and Women and Child Development under the P.V. Narasimha Rao government.
One of the defining moments in Mamata Banerjee’s political career was her involvement in the Singur and Nandigram movements. These movements — centered around land acquisition issues, particularly the acquisition of agricultural land for industrial projects — saw her rise as a leader and advocate for the rights of farmers and local communities in Bengal’s Singur and Nandigram districts. She received widespread support, eventually leading to the downfall of the 34-year-old Left Front government in West Bengal and her ascent to power.
pls dont even COMPARE BARBARIC MOSLEM HORDES with HINDUS….& dont go on trying 2 APPEASE MOSLEMS…by talking of TALIBAN in the same breath as KARNISENA!….NAAAK KATWANA….is only a common HINDI USAGE….means SORT OF ” will have 2 pay the price”….or “will B shamed”….dont give much 2 such EMOTIONAL TALKS!…any way the KARNIS R JUSTIFIED if some one 4 mere BOXOFFICE GAINS add a ROMANTIC TWIST 2 their (OUR)GLORIFIED RANISDIGNITY & especially towards a BARBARIC MLECHA,HOMOSEXUAL,SODOMIST like KHILJI!….dont understand Y “educated” likes of U try 2 APPEASE MOSLEMS….! OUR BRAVE RANIS & her AIDES who laid down their lives 4 DIGNITY should B included in HISTORY TEXTS….& dont talk of SATI….it wasnt & it was a MASS IMMOLATION 2 PREVENT THE “VARNA SANKARA” or RACIAL IMPREGNATION….by BARBARIC HORDES!…..perhaps like the BARBARIANS U toooo will NEVER UNDERSTAND!! what HONOUR is!!
A balanced article from the author who has seen both sides of our Country’s duplicity. There is no doubt that the politicians are all too willing to condone religious biases which lead to such actions as have been witnessed in the wake of the film Padmaavat which is based on a poem written years ago. There may be some harsh truths depicted in the picture which have not found favour with a minuscule section of our population, who have succeeded in holding even the majority of our population to ransom, strangely not a condemnatory word from the political class, who revel in such divisive politics. Who suffers from the selfish and self seeking attitude of our political class, the common man of our Country? It is, however, of no consequence to them so long as they can appease their vote banks, and continue to remain in power.
If ONE Community is allowed to get away with it – Others will try as well.
The first shoe dropped when Salman Rushdie was chased out of India – by fatwa and Government connivance no less. These subsequent outbursts are the result of that same strategy of grievance based censorship.
When “Himsa” works – people will use “himsa”. The best way to defeat these kinds of violent protests is to deny their utility and enforce the law.
Padmaavat is a commercial venture more to do about quick money than about freedom of expression. From the very start Bansali has dishonored his own oral and written assurances. Why not Kirupavathy instead of Padmavati? or Saif Ali Khilji instead of Allauddin Kilji? You want to spice up your story line which otherwise will be insipid at the cost of icon of one valiant community. Only one thing can be said. So called creators have to be responsible and sensitive to the Societal values rather than go after money greedily.