Mamata Banerjee is an Indian politician and lawyer who served as the eighth chief minister of West Bengal from 2011 to 2026. She was the first woman to hold the office. Being the founder and president of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC or TMC), sh
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She founded the AITC in 1998 after separating from the Indian National Congress (I), and became its second president later in 2001. She often refers to herself as Didi (meaning, elder sister in Bengali). She made history as the first sitting Chief Minister of India to argue as a lawyer in the Supreme Court.Banerjee previously served twice as Minister of Railways, becoming the first woman to do so. She was also the second female Minister of Coal, and Minister of Human Resource Development, Youth Affairs and Sports, Women and Child Development in the cabinet of the Indian government.
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The All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), formally the Trinamool Congress TMC,is an Indian political party based in the state of West Bengal founded by Mamata Banerjee in 1998
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