PM Modi congratulates Mamata Banerjee on taking oath as WB CM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has congratulated Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on taking oath as the Chief Minister of West Bengal for the third consecutive term.

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Mamata Banerjee (born 1955) is serving as the 8th and current Chief Minister of West Bengal since 2011, the first woman to hold the office.

She founded the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC or TMC) party in 1998 after separating from the Indian National Congress, and became its first chairperson.

Banerjee previously served twice as Minister of Railways, the first woman to do so.

She is also the first 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.