PM Modi : wishes CM Mamata Banerjee a long life and wishes her a happy birthday
PM Modi : On Monday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee received birthday congratulations from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who also wished her a long and healthy life.
The Prime Minister wished West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Didi a happy birthday in a greeting message that was posted on his X account. The Prime Minister wrote, “I pray for her good health and long life.”
The Prime Minister has wished Mamata Banerjee a happy birthday every year for the last several years, and he also wishes the Trinamool leader a happy birthday.
Just three days after the Prime Minister sent her birthday greetings on the same day, January 5, last year, the Chief Minister herself brought up the uncertainty around her true birthdate.
While speaking at a state government event in Kolkata on January 8, 2025, the Chief Minister asserted that she had turned 65 on that day rather than 70, as the Prime Minister had said in his birthday wishes.
Although she turned 70 on January 5 of last year, according to official documents, she confessed at the time. She said that she was unaware that her father had prolonged her birth year by five years when she was enrolled at a nearby school.
My older brother, Ajit Banerjee, told me about it while I was graduating. Additionally, he told me that according to the certificate, we are just six years apart in age,” Banerjee said on January 8 of last year.
The Chief Minister previously described her birth, which occurred during Durga Puja, in her 1995 book “Ekante.” According to the Hindu calendar, the puja is often performed around the end of September or the start of October.
Official documents state that Banerjee was born on January 5, 1955. According to that document, Monday was her 71st birthday.
West Bengal’s 34-year Left Front hegemony came to an end in 2011 when Mamata Banerjee was appointed Chief Minister. Her party then won two straight state Assembly elections, in 2016 and 2021.
She is West Bengal’s first female chief minister. She has organized many protest activities against the then-Left Front administration while serving as the head of the opposition in West Bengal.
She first belonged to Congress, but she subsequently split off to start her own party, Trinamool Congress. However, the Trinamool Congress formed an alliance with the Congress in the 2009 Lok Sabha election and the 2011 state Assembly elections. However, the Congress broke with Trinamool in the 2016 West Bengal Assembly elections and forged a partnership with the Left Front, which lasted until the 2024 national elections.