PERSONAL DETAILS OF OUR GREAT LEADER MAMATA BANERJEE

Mamata Banerjee was born to Shri Promileswar Banerjee and Smt. Gayatri Banerjee on 5 January 1955, in Calcutta (now Kolkata), West Bengal, India.

She grew up from a lower middle-class family and then started her political career with the Congress.

And, as a young woman in the 1970s, she quickly rose in the ranks to become the general secretary of the state Mahila Congress (1976–80).

She was a college-going adult in the mid-seventies when politics in Bengal had begun to accommodate the riffraff. Uninhibited, she jumped up on the bonnet of Jaiprakash Narayan's car.

Throughout her political life she maintained an austere lifestyle and never spends money on clothes, cosmetics and jewellery and slung a cotton bag on her shoulder. She has remained single throughout her life.

She graduated in arts from the Jogamaya Devi College, an affiliated undergraduate women's college of the historic University of Calcutta, in Kolkata. Later she earned a master's degree from the same university .

Her B.Ed. was done from the Shri Shikshayatan College, which is affiliated with the same university. Later, she earned a law degree LL.B. from the Jogesh Chandra Choudhury College of Law, Kolkata.