Test your Mamata Banerjee-quotient

Here are 9 questions on the TMC supremo, who just made her quest for a bigger role in national politics known

Addressing a mammoth rally in Kolkata on Thursday, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee said her party would go it alone in the Lok Sabha polls and renewed her call for a federal front. The West Bengal Chief Minister said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) isn’t an alternative to the Congress-led United Progessive Alliance (UPA). The Congress isn’t an alternative to the BJP either, she added.

Banerjee used the occasion to send out a clear message that she nursed the ambition to play a bigger role in national politics.

So we, at BusinessStandard.com, have decided to quiz you on Mamata Banerjee, Take the challenge! 

1. Whom did Mamata Banerjee defeat in her first Lok Sabha election in 1984?

a. Indrajit Gupta
b. Somnath Chatterjee
c. Biman Bose
d. Buddhadeb Bhattacharya

2. For the first time, whose cabinet did Mamata Banerjee join as minister of state for sports and youth affairs in 1991?

a. P V Narasimha Rao
b. Rajiv Gandhi
c. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
d. V P Singh

3. Mamata Banerjee once allegedly held the collar of an eminent leader of the Samajwadi Party in the well of the House. Who?

Amar Singh
Mulayam Singh Yadav
Ram Naresh Yadav
Daroga Prasad Saroj

4. In 1976, on whose car bonnet did Mamata Banerjee dance in order to stop him from entering Calcutta?

a. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
b. Harkishen Singh Surjeet
c. Jayaprakash Narayan
d. Charan Singh

5. Who was occupying the Speaker's chair when Mamata Banerjee threw a sheaf of paper towards him as she was refused to speak on 'illegal migrants from Bangladesh' in West Bengal?

a. Charanjit Singh Atwal
b. Somnath chatterjee
c. P A Sangma
d. Gopinath Munde

6. In 1999, Mamata Banerjee joined the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led National Democratic Alliance government as Union minister of:  

a. Human Resource Development
b. Railways
c. Civil Aviation
d. Commerce and Industry

7. Who was the Railway Minister when Mamata Banerjee threw her shawl to protest against deprivation of Bengal in Railway budget?

a. Lalu Prasad
b. Nitish Kumar
c. Ram Vilas Paswan
d. George Fernandes

8. For how many years had the CPI(M) ruled West Bengal (Paschim Banga) before it lost to Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress in the 2011 assembly polls?

a. 30
b. 34
c. 25
d. 15

9. Which international group was to set up the SEZ at Nandigram, before violence erupted?

a. DuPont
b. Dow Chemicals
c. Salim Group
d. Mitsubishi Chemical
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Answers:

1. b
2. a
3. d
4. c
5. a
6. b
7. c
8. b
9. c