Mamata Banerjee

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Mamata Banerjee

Question: On 27 May 2016 Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee was sworn in as Chief Minister of West Bengal for the consecutive second time. Name the governor who administered the oath of office and secrecy to her?
(a) Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa
(b) Ram Nath Kovind
(c) Keshari Nath Tripathi
(d) Balramji Dass Tandon
Ans:(c)
Related facts:

  • On 27 May 2016 All India Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee was sworn in as Chief Minister of West Bengal for the consecutive second time.
  • Governor Keshri Nath Tripathi administered her oath of office and secrecy at a function at Red Road in central Kolkata..
  • She is the state’s eighth chief minister and the first woman to occupy the post for the second time; she took her oath in Bengali.
  • 41-member council of ministers took the oath of office along with Mamata Banerjee.
  • In the 1984 general election, Banerjee became one of India’s youngest parliamentarians ever, beating veteran Communist politician Somnath Chatterjee, from the Jadavpur parliamentary Constituency in West Bengal.
  • She won the Kolkata South seat in the 1991, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004 and 2009 general elections.
  • In the Narasimha Rao government formed in 1991, Mamata Banerjee was made the Union Minister of State for Development, Youth, and Women and Child Development.
  • In 1999 she became Railway minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. She is also the first woman Railway Minister of India.
    She founded the party All India Trinamool Congress (AITMC or TMC) in 1997 and became its chairperson.
  • It may be recalled that in Legislative Assembly Election of West Bengal 2016 All India Trinamool Congress (AITMC) crossed the two-third mark by winning 211 seats out of 294 seats.
  • Among the foreign delegates apart from Bhutan Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay, Bangladesh Industry Minister Amir Hossain Amu was also present.

Reference:
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/live-mamata-banerjee-swearing-in-ceremony/article8653655.ece
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Mamata-Banerjees-swearing-in-ceremony/liveblog/52460285.cms
http://westbengal.gov.in/portal/banglarMukh/CMSPage/BMCMSPortletWindow;jsessionid=26D43DDDED3A28AADCC7979756F35803.node1?fileId=85&action=e&windowstate=normal&in.gov.wb.portal.MENU_ID_PARAMETER=28&mode=view
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/list-of-ministers-in-mamatas-cabinet/article8654872.ece