Chief Minister of West Bengal
In 2011, the All India Trinamool Congress along with SUCI and the Indian National Congress won the West Bengal legislative assembly election against the incumbent Left Alliance by securing 227 seats. TMC won 184 seats with the INC winning 42 seats and the SUCI secured one seat. This marked the end of the longest ruling democratically elected Communist party in the world.
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Taking the Oath at Raj Bhavan, Kolkata
You can download the clip or download a player to play the clip in your browser. Mamata Banerjee takes the oath of office as Chief Minister administered by Governor M. K. Narayanan on 20 May 2011. Read more about this topic: Mamata Banerjee Famous quotes containing the words chief, minister, west and/or bengal:“Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy:Min the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.” “Just let him be minister if that’s what he desires, but without his brother and his brother-in-law.” “It was in and about the Martinmas time, “Warmest climes but nurse the cruelest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.” |