Mamta Banerjee resigned: 1) youth sports ministry, center (during Rajiv Gandhi tenure) 2) Union Railway Ministry (NDA) 3) Member of Parliament (in protest to Somnath Chatterjee becoming speaker). 3) yet to come (resigned from her own party). Does she have any ceadibility left?
RE:Mamta Mistress of resignation or walkout
by pattu on May 24, 2007 11:43 PM Permalink
There is more: excerpts from wikipedia: "In the Rao government formed in 1991, Mamta Banerjee was made the Union Minister of State for Human Resources Development, Youth Affairs and Sports, and Women and Child Development. As the sports minister, she announced that she would resign at a rally at the Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata, saying that the Government had ignored her proposal to improve sports in the country.[1] She was discharged of her portfolios in 1993. In April 1996, she alleged that Congress was behaving as a stooge of the CPI-M in West Bengal. She claimed that she was the lone voice of protest and wanted a "clean Congress". At a public rally at Alipore in Kolkata, Mamata wrapped a black shawl around her neck and ventured to commit suicide. Her loyalists came forward to save her. In July 1996, she squatted at the well of Lok Sabha to protest against the hike in petroleum price, though she was a part of the Government. In February 1997, on the day of railway budget presentation in Lok Sabha, Mamata Banerjee threw her shawl at the railway minister Ram Vilas Paswan for ignoring West Bengal and announced her resignation." So, it was Rao government not Rajiv Gandhi government. Sorry for the mistake in the posting above.
