PM's sister calls on Mamata, says she should be ministerMay 17th, 2009 KOLKATA - A day after her alliance's spectacular showing in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee had an unexpected visitor Sunday - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's sister Preetam Kaur. Preetam Kaur and her husband called on Banerjee at her spartan Kalighat residence in south Kolkata and congratulated her on the victory of the Congress-Trinamool Congress alliance over the ruling Left Front in West Bengal.
Mamata wins Kolkata SouthMay 16th, 2009 KOLKATA - Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee registered her sixth consecutive victory from the Kolkata South Lok Sabha seat, trouncing her nearest rival, Rabin Deb of Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) by 219,571 votes. Banerjee, who has been winning from this seat since 1991, had defeated Deb in 2004 also.
CPI-M top brass takes on Mamata on her home turfMay 9th, 2009 KOLKATA - Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leaders, including general secretary Prakash Karat, are concentrating their election campaign in Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's Kolkata South constituency which goes to the polls Wednesday. Four politburo members of the party are virtually camping in the constituency as part of a last-minute blitz against the state's main opposition leader.
Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee, CPI (M) rival file their nominationsApril 22nd, 2009 KOLKATA - Trinamul Congress leader Mamata Banerjee filed her nomination for the South Kolkata parliamentary constituency on Wednesday. Her main CPI (M) opponent, Rabin Deb also filed his nomination today.
Mamata Banerjee files poll papers in West BengalApril 22nd, 2009 KOLKATA - Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Wednesday filed her nomination papers from the Kolkata-South constituency in West Bengal for the Lok Sabha elections. Mamata was accompanied by senior Trinamool leaders Partha Chattopadhyay, Kalyan Banerjee, Sovan Deb Chattapadhyay and nearly 300-odd supporters.
Mamata declares her humble assetsApril 22nd, 2009 KOLKATA - While billionaire politicians are grabbing headlines, Trinamool Congress party chief Mamata Banerjee Wednesday declared assets worth Rs.4.73 lakh (Rs.473,000). She does not own a car or a house.
Sonia, Mamata to share dais in West BengalApril 12th, 2009 KOLKATA - Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee will share the campaign platform with Congress president Sonia Gandhi April 27 at a rally in West Bengal's Jangipur, from where External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee is seeking re-election to the Lok Sabha. This was decided at a late Saturday meeting between Mukherjee and Mamata at the former's south Kolkata residence.
Here, there, Mamata Banerjee everywhereApril 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - It was an unusual sight. Residents of South Kolkata were startled to find hundreds of Mamata Banerjees walking in a procession, canvassing for votes for the Trinamool Congress chief.
Mamata Banerjee says she will never ride a NanoApril 3rd, 2009 KOLKATA - Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has said that she will not ride Tata's Nano car because it was "manufactured with the people's blood."
"I will not ride the Nano which has been manufactured with the people's blood," Banerjee said in Kolkata. Mamta's party's anti-land acquisition agitation led to the shifting of Tata's Nano manufacturing factory from West Bengal.
Mamata on campaign trail in northern BengalMarch 28th, 2009 KOLKATA - To consolidate her political strength before the Lok Sabha elections, chief of West Bengal's principal opposition party, Trinamool Congress, Mamata Banerjee Saturday left for northern West Bengal to address two party conferences in the foothills of the Himalayan region. 'I am going to north Bengal where I will address workers' two conferences at Dinhata in Cooch Behar and Alipurduar in Jalpaiguri district,' Banerjee told reporters here at her south Kolkata residence.
Mamata, Pranab discuss joint poll campaignMarch 26th, 2009 KOLKATA - Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Thursday met West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Pranab Mukheree to discuss the issue of joint campaigning for the Lok Sabha election in the state. 'We discussed the issue of Congress-Trinamool Congress joint campaigning across the state.
I am waiting for Congress' reply on seat adjustment: MamataMarch 6th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal's principal opposition party Trinamool Congress is waiting for the Congress' reply on seat adjustment for the coming Lok Sabha polls in the state, party chief Mamata Banerjee said here Thursday. 'I am waiting for a reply from the Congress.
CPI-M pits newcomer against Pranab in Lok Sabha pollsMarch 4th, 2009 Kolkata, March (IANS) Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee will face an old foe while External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee will be up against a relative lightweight in the Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal. Banerjee won in 2004 against Communist Party of India-Marxist's (CPI-M) Rabin Deb, who is known for his organisational skills, by 98,429 votes.
Pranab, Mamata meet for alliance talksMarch 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal state Congress president Pranab Mukherjee and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Sunday night held talks to forge an alliance between the two parties for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. Senior Congress leader K.
Mamata takes out anti-hooch rally in KolkataJanuary 10th, 2009 KOLKATA - Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Sunday took out a rally in Kolkata to protest the sale of poisonous country-made liquor that claimed several lives here last week. 'The West Bengal government should give compensation to the families of each victim who died after consuming poisonous country-made liquor at Khidirpore port area in south-west Kolkata,' Banerjee said.
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