Bengal is celebrating the birthday of their beloved Didi with heartfelt emotion and love. We wish her a happy and healthy life ahead.
About Didi
Mamata Banerjee better known as Didi, born 5 January 1955 is a poet, painter, miscellanist and an Indian politician with international fame who has been the 8th Chief Minister of West Bengal since 2011. She is the first woman to hold the office. She founded the party All India Trinamool Congress (AITMC or TMC) in 1997 after separating from the Indian National Congress, and became its chairperson. She is often referred to as Didi (meaning: elder sister in Hindi and Bengali).
Banerjee previously twice served as the Minister of Railways, the first woman to do so. She is also the first female Minister of Coal, and Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Youth Affairs, Sports, Women and Child Development in the cabinet of the Indian government.She rose to prominence after opposing the erstwhile land acquisition policies for industrialisation of the Communist government in West Bengal for Special Economic Zones at the cost of agriculturalists and farmers at Singur.
In 2011 Mamata Banerjee pulled off a landslide victory for the TMC Congress alliance in West Bengal, defeating the 34-year-old Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front government, the world’s longest-serving democratically elected communist government in the process.
In 2012, Time magazine named her one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.
Bloomberg Markets magazine listed her among the 50 most influential people in the world of finance in September 2012.
In May 2013, the TMC leader was voted India’s most honest politician in an internal poll by members of India Against Corruption, India’s largest anti-corruption coalition.
A tribute to a great leader #MamataBanerjee on her Birthday ?#HappyBirthdayMamataBanerjee @MamataOfficial ?https://t.co/tbqID88zVI
— Saroop Chattopadhyay (@KOLLEO) January 5, 2018
…Let there be a State Holiday on 5th January i.e. the Birthday of the "Architect of Modern Bengal", Smt. Mamata Banerjee…!!!
…Happy Birthday Didibhai…!!!…love you…!!! …best regards…!!! ❤❤?? pic.twitter.com/Yap3zeRxQH— Anupam Hazra (@tweetanupam) January 5, 2018
