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Mamata Banerjee

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Mamata Banerjee (Bengali pronunciation: [mɔmot̪a bɔnd̪ːopad̪d̪ʱae̯] ; born 5 January 1955) is an Indian politician who is serving as the eighth and current chief minister of the Indian state of West Bengal since 20 May 2011, the first woman to hold the office. Having served multiple times as a Union Cabinet Minister, Mamata Banerjee became the Chief Minister of West Bengal for the first time in 2011. She founded the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC or TMC) in 1998 after separating from the Indian National Congress, and became its second chairperson later in 2001. She often refers to herself as Didi (meaning, elder sister in Bengali). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mamata Banerjee is the 12,655th most popular politician (up from 12,746th in 2019), the 506th most popular biography from India (down from 483rd in 2019) and the 163rd most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mamata Banerjee ranks 12,655 out of 19,576. Before her are Decimus Junius Silanus Torquatus, Mangrai, Tiye, Federico Chávez, John II, Duke of Cleves, and Marduk-zakir-shumi I. After her are Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas, Abu Bakar of Johor, Orso I Participazio, Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ, and Chen Jiongming.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Mamata Banerjee ranks 224. Before her are Steve Berry, Efim Zelmanov, Gilbert Gottfried, Koji Tanaka, Dee Snider, and Boney Kapoor. After her are Şivan Perwer, Melinda Culea, Paul Greengrass, Cai Qi, Joaquín Caparrós, and Djamel Zidane.

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In India

Among people born in India, Mamata Banerjee ranks 506 out of 1,861. Before her are Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900), Tyagaraja (1767), Shruti Haasan (1986), B. R. Chopra (1914), Ranveer Singh (1985), and Boney Kapoor (1955). After her are Dhondo Keshav Karve (1858), Kajol (1974), Sumitranandan Pant (1900), John Frost (1912), Soumya Swaminathan (1959), and Ram Manohar Lohia (1910).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Mamata Banerjee ranks 163. Before her are Rani Padmini (null), Lakshmi Sahgal (1914), Sanjay Gandhi (1946), N. Chandrababu Naidu (1950), Begum Hazrat Mahal (1820), and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900). After her are C. N. Annadurai (1909), Lalu Prasad Yadav (1948), Kumaragupta I (400), Fatima Jinnah (1893), Jhalkaribai (1830), and M. S. Swaminathan (1925).

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