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Mamata Banerjee comes to power in Bengal for the first time

Mamata Banerjee's political identity has been that of a 'street fighter' who has always responded to insults with her stubbornness and determination. That night of 1993 was the biggest turning point of his life, when while demanding justice for a deaf and mute victim, he was dragged down the stairs from the Secretariat (Writers Building) by the police by his hair. After being locked in the lockup at midnight, Mamata, burning in the fire of the same humiliation, took a solemn oath that she would step into that building only when she herself became the Chief Minister. His image was further strengthened when he was fatally attacked during a demonstration in 1990 and he was hit on the head with an iron rod. Her face wrapped in bandages on a hospital bed gave birth to a new 'Didi' in Bengal politics, who finally fulfilled her oath in 2011 and ousted the 34-year-old Left regime.