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.
How can a person be so shameless and unrepentant?
Mamata Banerjee is the reason West Bengal is overrun with Bangladeshi Muslims. It’s her patronage of fanatic and fundamentalist Muslims that has resulted in the anti-Hindu violence in Murshidabad. Her administration has been working in cahoots with Islamists.
If Bengali Hindus do not wake up now, it will be too late. Bengal is on it’s way to be a part of Bangladesh.
Paid trolls nowadays even comment on news articles with fake, rubbish claims. The 26 election will prove again divisive politics won’t work in Bengal.
Such a shameless woman!
Hindus were murdered and raped by mobs of Islamists in Murshidabad – all under the patronage of her administration. The TMC government ensured that Jihadi elements could plunder, pillage, rape and murder wantonly in Murshidabad without any interference from West Bengal police. The police, under instructions from the Bengal Home Ministry, were mute spectators to the egregious anti-Hindu pogroms.
Mr. Barman knows everything well enough as he has covered the issue on ground – albeit a few days later. And yet, he indulges in both-sideism.
Shame on him and The Print.