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- Trinamool chief, Mamata Banerjee, spoke at a rally in Kolkata in July last year.
Before she launched a highly-publicized campaign against the Tata Motors Nano factory in Singur, West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee received little coverage at the national level, and even less outside the country. But whenever she did crop up in the news, there was a certain quality that ran through all her public appearances.
In 1996, papers reported that Ms. Banerjee, who is known as Didi or big sister, had threatened to strangle herself with her shawl at a political rally in protest at a deal between her then-party, Congress, and the Communists.
The following year, she was briefly expelled from the lower house of Parliament for charging at a minister when she didn't like his response to a question she had asked, the Business Standard reported. For good measure, she threw her shawl at the speaker upon being expelled.
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