Born in Kolkata, Mamata Banerjee completed degrees in work education from Basanti Devi College and an LLB from Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Law College under Calcutta University. She started her political career with Congress (I). In 1984, she became one of India's youngest parliamentarians ever, beating veteran Communist politician Somnath Chatterjee, from the Jadavpur parliamentary Constituency in West Bengal. Losing her seat in 1989 in an anti-Congress wave, she was back in 1991, having settled into the Calcutta South Lok Sabha constituency. She retained the Kolkata South seat in the 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004 and 2009 elections.
Friday, May 22, 2009
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Born in Kolkata, Mamata Banerjee completed degrees in work education from Basanti Devi College and an LLB from Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Law College under Calcutta University. She started her political career with Congress (I). In 1984, she became one of India's youngest parliamentarians ever, beating veteran Communist politician Somnath Chatterjee, from the Jadavpur parliamentary Constituency in West Bengal. Losing her seat in 1989 in an anti-Congress wave, she was back in 1991, having settled into the Calcutta South Lok Sabha constituency. She retained the Kolkata South seat in the 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004 and 2009 elections.
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