Kolkata:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Sunday, greeted West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on her seventieth birthday.
“On her birthday, I convey my greetings to West Bengal CM Mamata Didi. Praying for her lengthy and wholesome life,” learn a message from the Prime Minister posted on his X deal with.
On her birthday, I convey my greetings to West Bengal CM Mamata Didi. Praying for her lengthy and wholesome life. @MamataOfficial
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) January 5, 2025
The same birthday want was prolonged by Congress nationwide president Mallikarjun Kharge, who selected to increase the greetings in Bengali contemplating that it’s the mom tongue of Mamata Banerjee.
“Heat birthday needs to the founding chairperson TMC, Mamata didi. Wishing you an extended and wholesome life,” Mr Kharge’s publish learn.
For the previous couple of years, the Prime Minister has not missed a single alternative to want Mamata Banerjee on today. Nearly yearly, the Prime Minister needs Mamata Banerjee on today.
In accordance with official data, Ms Banerjee was born on January 5, 1955, which, nonetheless, shouldn’t be her “precise” start date.
Ms Banerjee, in her 1995 memoir ‘Ekante’, has written about her start, which happened throughout Durga Puja. The puja is normally held on the finish of September or the start of October as per the Hindu calendar.
Mamata Banerjee turned the Chief Minister of West Bengal in 2011 ending the 34-year Left Entrance rule and subsequently, her get together received in two consecutive state Meeting elections first in 2016 after which in 2021.
She is the primary lady Chief Minister of West Bengal. Because the then-opposition chief in West Bengal, she had organised a number of protest actions in opposition to the then-Left Entrance authorities.
She was initially related to Congress, however later broke off to kind her get together — Trinamool Congress. Nonetheless, within the 2009 Lok Sabha election and 2011 state Meeting elections, Trinamool Congress had an alliance with Congress. However, within the 2016 West Bengal Meeting polls, Congress parted methods with Trinamool and fashioned an alliance with the Left Entrance which continued until common elections in 2024.
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