"Mamata Banerjee (Bengali: মমতা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়, [mɔːmoːt̪ʰaː bɛːnaːrjiː]; ممتا بنرجی born 5 January 1955) is the Chief Minister-elect of West Bengal (to assume office on 18 May 2011) and the founding chairperson of the Trinamool Congress.[1][2][3] Noted as a firebrand orator and popularly known as "Didi" (meaning 'the elder sister'), she pulled off a landslide victory for the All India Trinamul Congress in West Bengal by defeating the world's longest-serving democratically-elected communist government, i.e. Communist Party of India (Marxist) led Left Front government, eliminating the 34 years of Left's rule in the state.[4][5][6] She opposes Special Economic Zones and forceful land acquisition for industrialization in West Bengal at the cost of agriculturalists and farmers.[1][6]"
Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamata_Banerjee
Link to Mamata page on Lok Sabha website: http://india.gov.in/govt/loksabhampbiodata.php?mpcode=39
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