The swearing-in at a ceremony in the presence of 3,200 invitees drawn from among the top names in politics, business and art and culture will take place at 1:01 pm as per the wishes of the Trinamool supremo. Ms. Banerjee, who will be the eleventh chief minister of the State, will be administered the oath of office and secrecy by Governor M K Narayanan on the southwest lawn of the 208 - year old Raj Bhavan, where shamianas have been erected.
Ms. Banerjee will be head the first non-Left government to take charge of West Bengal 34 years after a nine-party Left Front government had come to power led by Jyoti Basu in 1977.
Trinamool Congress and allies Congress and SUCI stormed to power in the State with a three-fourths majority signalling the historic changeover in the State’s politics.
Congress, which secured 42 seats, is likely to join the Mamata Banerjee government.
Mamata Banerjee
Born-5 January 1955 (age 56)
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Nationality-Indian
Political party-All India Trinamool Congress
Spouse(s)-Unmarried
Residence-sNew Delhi, India (Official)
Kolkata, West Bengal (Private)
Alma mater-Jogamaya Devi College (B.A.)
University of Calcutta (M.A.)
Shri Shikshayatan College (B.Ed.)
Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Law College (LL.B.)
Profession-Politician
Advocate
Social Worker
Religion-Hindu
Mamata is the Chief Minister-elect of West Bengal and the founding chairperson of the Trinamool Congress. Noted as a firebrand orator and popularly known as "Didi" , 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.In the cabinet of the Government of India she was the Minister of Railways twice, Minister of Coal once, and Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Department of Youth Affairs and Sports and Women and Child Development once. She opposes Special Economic Zones and forceful land acquisition for industrialization in West Bengal at the cost of agriculturalists and farmers.Mamata Banerjee was born to Promileswar and Gayatri Banerjee on 5 January 1955, in Calcutta (now Kolkata), West Bengal, India. She is BRAHMIN.She grew up from a lower middle-class family and then started her political career with the Congress. And, as a young woman in the 1970s, she quickly rose in the ranks to become the general secretary of the state Mahila Congress (1976–80). She was a College-going adult in the mid-1970s when politics in Bengal had begun to accommodate the riffraff. Uninhibited, she jumped up and danced on the bonnet of Jaiprakash Narayan's car. Throughout her political life she maintained an austere lifestyle and never spent money on clothes, cosmetics and jewellery and slung a cotton bag on her shoulder. She has remained single throughout her life.