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Mamata Banerjee turns 61

by IBNS 05 Jan 2016, 08:02 am

Kolkata, Jan 5 (IBNS) West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee turned 61 on Tuesday.

The TMC supremo was born in 1955 in Kolkata and started her political journey in the mid 70's as a young Indian Congress worker.

She rose to prominence as a fine leader and in 1997 broke off from the Congress to form her own Party the All India Trinamool Congress (AITMC) and became its chairperson.

Banerjee played the second fiddle in Bengal politics until 2006, where she emerged as a mass leader following a Left debacle.

Two back to back incidents in West Bengal's Nandigram and Shingur meant that Banerjee and her party was to assume office in the next term and the inevitable happened in 2011, as she created history by becoming the first female CM of the state.

Prior to her commitments as a CM, she was appointed as the Union Railway Minister in 2009.