Written By: Priyanka Rajpal | Updated: Jan 5, 2017, 9:51 AM
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She doesn’t even fear the Prime Minister and her agenda for protest against currency ban was the welfare of poor and farmer section of her state. For this she flew to Delhi to protest and ask PM to roll back his decision.
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She was put on an oxygen support after she developed breathing problems on the 23rd day of her fast to protest against the West Bengal government's "forcible" acquisition of farm land at Singur for Tata Motor's small car project. Banerjee's fast led the Tata's to shun the project.
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In a survey by people of India and West Bengal and comparisons between all politicians, Mamata stood out as the most honest politician of India and here is why we can call her the ‘lady of her words’.
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Not only WB’s first women CM, she even bagged the title of first woman Railway Minister of India. She even served as Minister of Coal, and Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Department of Youth Affairs and Sports and Women and Child Development in the Cabinet of the Indian government.
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In the 1984 general elections, she was elected to Lok Sabha as one of the youngest parliamentarians, beating veteran CPI leader Somnath Chatterjee from the Jadavpur seat in South Kolkata.
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She alone came up as a strong candidate in Congress who was entitled great power and responsibilities as general secretary of the All India Youth Congress.
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In 1991, Banerjee fractured her head in an attacked by a CPI-M goon Lalu Alam. The incident took place at Hazra crossing in southern part of Kolkata when Banerjee was leading a Congress rally. But she did not let go these threats to affect her career and her zeal for people’s welfare and she soon healed the wounds and came back and this time even stronger than ever.
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In 1993, Banerjee was physically hackled and thrown out of state secretariat Writers' Buildings by the police for protesting in front of the then chief minister Jyoti Basu's office. She always stood for her people of West Bengal bold and fearless.
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Mamata fought for land rights of farmers which led to the exit of Tata, got her international attention and she came to the forefront of West Bengal politics.
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