Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee was on Tuesday formally appointed chief minister of West Bengal by governor M.K. Narayanan.
Till she is sworn in, she will be referred to as CM designate. A day after Mr Narayanan invited her to form the new government, a four-line statement was issued from Raj

Chief minister-designate Mamata Banerjee who will take oath of office on Friday, has almost finalised her Cabinet. Sources said Amit Mitra may get finance, Partha Chatterjee industry, Purnendu Bose labour and Rabi Ranjan Chatterjee education. Advocate Biman Banerjee or former high court judge Noore Alam Chowdhury may be appointed the Speaker of the Assembly.

In an attempt to inculcate parliamentary norms among newly-elected Congress MLAs (half of them being new faces), Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said that he would take their classes.

Former Lok Sabha Speaker and expelled CPI(M) leader Somnath Chatterjee on Sunday sent a letter to Trinamul Congress chief and chief minister designate Mamata Banerjee, congratulating her on her victor

The possibility of the Congress joining a Mamata Banerjee-led government in West Bengal brightened following discussions between Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and the Trinamul Congress chief and chief minister-in-waiting. The final decision, however, will be taken by Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Ms Banerjee said she would personally invite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Mrs Gandhi to her swearing-in ceremony.

The possibility of the Congress joining a Mamata Banerjee-led government in West Bengal brightened following discussions between Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and the Trinamul Congress chief and chief minister-in-waiting. The final decision, however, will be taken by Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Ms Banerjee said she would personally invite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Mrs Gandhi to her swearing-in ceremony.

Preparations for celebrations began at Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee’s Harish Chatterjee Street residence even before the polling had begun. Such was the confidence of the party supporters about the victory that a large number of youth, including women with green abir in one hand and party flag in the other, started pouring in immediately after the sunrise.

When Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee became sanguine of dislodging the Left Front from power and taking over the reins of West Bengal, one concern still kept gnawing her: the sagging economy of the state. To salvage the sagging financial position of the state, she zeroed in on Amit Mitra. She thought that if any one could

So, Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has done the impossible: Removed the CPI(M)-led Left Front from power in West Bengal. The ruling CPI(M) which was considered invincible has been routed. One woman has demolished the Red Fort.

In December 1992, Mamata Banerjee, who was then a junior minister in Narsimha Rao government was humiliated, dragged by her hair and then thrown out of the Writers’ Buildings. She had gone to meet the then chief minister Jyoti Basu to seek justice for a deaf and mute girl Deepali Basak who was raped allegedly by a CPI(M) cadre in a Nadia village.