Nationalist Trinamool Congress
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Nationalist Trinamool Congress is a political party in India. NTC was formed in 2004 when the All India Trinamool Congress of Mamata Banerjee merged with P.A. Sangma's faction of the Nationalist Congress Party. NTC is a member of National Democratic Alliance, a coalition led by BJP.
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Both Banerjee and Sangma have backgrounds as regional leaders of the Indian National Congress. Banerjee was a prominent leader of Youth Congress in West Bengal. In 1997 she broke away from INC and formed West Bengal Trinamool (=grassroot) Congress. WBTC was later renamed All India Trinamool Congress. AITC rapidly developed into the leading opposition to the Left Front government in West Bengal. Ahead of the state assembly elections in 2001 AITC appeared as a contender for government power. But since 2003 the Indian National Congress has retaken the initiative, and in the panchayat elections in West Bengal in 2003 INC retook the position as the leading opposition party in the state. After that AITC suffered a series of defections. Outside West Bengal AITC had limited success, but the party was able to gain recognition as a state party in Tripura. |
P.A. Sangma, a former trade union leader and the speaker of the Lok Sabha during the United Front government 1996-98, had together with Sharad Pawar revolted in 1999 against the election of the Italian-born widow of Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, as the Congress party leader. Sangma and Pawar formed the Nationalist Congress Party in May 1999. The base of NCP was concentrated to Maharashtra (Pawar's home state) and the north-eastern states were Sangma had many followers. Most likely Sangma is currently the most high-profile politician of north-eastern India today.
[edit] Lok Sabha election results
Results from 1999 are those of All India Trinamool Congress.
| State | No. of candidates 2004 | No. elected 2004 | No. of candidates 1999 | No. elected 1999 | Total no. of seats from the state |
| Andhra Pradesh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Assam | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| Bihar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 (2004)/54(1999) |
| Chhattisgarh | 0 | 0 | - | - | 11 (2004) |
| Goa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gujarat | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| Haryana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Jammu and Kashmir | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Jharkhand | 0 | 0 | - | - | 14 (2004) |
| Karnataka | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 |
| Kerala | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 (2004)/40(1999) |
| Maharashtra | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 |
| Manipur | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Meghalaya | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Mizoram | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Nagaland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Orissa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| Punjab | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| Rajasthan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| Sikkim | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Tamil Nadu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 |
| Tripura | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 80 (2004)/85 (1999) |
| Uttaranchal | 0 | 0 | - | - | 5 (2004) |
| West Bengal | 29 | 1 | 28 | 8 | 42 |
| Union territories: | |||||
| Andaman & Nicobar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Chandigarh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Daman and Diu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Delhi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Lakshadweep | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Pondicherry | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Total: | 33 | 2 | 29 | 8 | 543 |
