All India Trinamool Congress

All India Trinamool Congress
Chairperson Mamata Banerjee
(Railway Minister)
Leader in Lok Sabha Mamata Banerjee
Leader in Rajya Sabha Swapan Sadhan Bose
Founded 1 January 1998 (1998-01-01)
Headquarters 30B, Harish Chatterjee Street, Kolkata, 700 026
Newspaper Jago Bangla (Bengali)
Student wing All India Trinamool Student Congress
Youth wing All India Trinamool Youth Congress
Women's wing All India Trinamool Mahila Congress
Labour wing Indian National Trinamool Trade Union Congress[1]
Peasant's wing All India Trinamool Kisan Congress
Ideology Social democracy
Secularism
Anti-communism
Social liberalism
Indian Nationalism[2]
International affiliation None
Official colours Bright Green  
ECI Status State party[3]
Alliance United Progressive Alliance (UPA)
Seats in Lok Sabha 19
Seats in Rajya Sabha 2
Election symbol
AITC party symbol
Website
http://www.aitmc.org/
Politics of India
Political parties
Elections

The All India Trinamool Congress (abbreviated AITC, and also known as the Trinamool Congress, formerly West Bengal Trinamool Congress) is a political party in India. Founded in 1 January 1998, it consisted largely of defectors from the Indian National Congress in West Bengal. The party is led by Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee. Trinamool Congress is currently the second largest member of the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coalition.

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History

Formation of the party

Mamata Banerjee was expelled from Indian National Congress on 22 December 1997. She formed her own party, the "Trinamool Congress", which was registered with the Election Commission of India during mid-December, 1997. The Election Commission alloted to the party an exclusive symbol of Jora Ghas Phul, which symbolizes down-trodden grass-root flowers.

Performance in elections

In 1998, just after formation, Trinamool Congress started getting huge response in West Bengal. Specially Congress workers and even Left workers joined the newly formed party. In the 1998 Lok Sabha poll, TMC won 7 seats.[4] One more Lok Sabha election was held just in 1999, in which Trinamool Congress managed to win 8 seats, thus increasing the tally by one.[5] In 2000, TMC won one important municipality election, Kolkata Municipal Corporation Election. In 2001 Bidhan Sabha election, TMC managed to win 60 seats.[6] In 2004 Lok Sabha election, TMC performed worst and managed to win only 1 seat.[7] In 2006 Bidhan Sabha election, TMC won 30 seats.

Nandigram movement

The West Bengal government wanted to start a chemical hub in Nandigram (situated in East Midnapore) by forcefully acquiring the land. In December 2006, the people of Nandigram were given notice by Haldia Development Authority (then headed by CPM leader Laxman Seth) that major portion of Nandigram would be seized and 70,000 people be evicted from their homes.[8] People started movement against this land acquisition and Trinamool Congress led the movement. Bhumi Uchchhed Pratirodh Committee (BUPC) was formed against land grabbing and eviction. On March 14, 2007 the police opened firing and killed 14 villagers. Many more went missing. Many sources claimed which was supported by CBI in its report, that armed CPM cadres, along with police, fired on protesters in Nandigram.[9] A large number of intellectuals protested on the streets and this incident gave birth of a new movement. Trinamool Congress leader Suvendu Adhikari (currently MP of Tamluk) led the movement.

2009 general election

In 2009 Lok Sabha election, Trinamool Congress and its allies won 26 seats in West Bengal. 19 seats were won by TMC itself. 6 were won by INC and one more by SUCI.[10]

2010 municipality elections

Trinamool Congress had won the Kolkata Civic polls as the party won 97 seats out of 141.

Leadership

Mamata Banerjee, Railway Minister of the Republic of India and leader of the All India Trinamool Congress.
    • Dinesh Trivedi
    • Mukul Roy
    • Kakali Ghosh Dastidar
    • Shovandeb Chattopadhyay
    • Sultan Ahmed
    • Chitta Mondal
    • Biman Banerjee
    • Gobinda Chandra Naskar
    • Partha Chatterjee
    • Abhishek Banerjee
    • Ambika Banerjee
    • Javed Ahmed Khan
    • Sadhan Pande
    • Tapas Pal
    • Jyotipriya Mallick
    • Swapan Sadhan Bose
    • Shubhendu Adhikari
    • Alok Acharjee
    • Derek O'Brien
    • Sougata Roy
    • Kabir Suman
    • Shatabdi Roy
    • Sisir Adhikari
    • Sucharu Ranjan Haldar
    • Somendra Nath Mitra
    • Sudip Bandyopadhyay
    • Priyal Chowdhury
    • Tapash Roy
    • Baiswannar Chattapadhyay
    • Shonku Deb Panda
    • Tamoghna Ghosh
    • Ashok Mandal
    • Sikha Mitra
    • Subrata Bakshi
    • Mala Saha
    • DR.SANTANU SEN
    • Pushpali Sinha

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Telegraph". http://www.telegraphindia.com/1010605/the_east.htm. 
  2. ↑ "why TMC". http://www.allindiatrinamulcongress.org/constitution.html. 
  3. ↑ "Election Commission of India". http://search.eci.gov.in/ae_2008e/parties/index.htm. 
  4. ↑ [1]
  5. ↑ [2]
  6. ↑ [3]
  7. ↑ [4]
  8. ↑ Nandigram says 'No!' to Dow's chemical hub
  9. ↑ http://www.indianexpress.com/news/cpm-cadres-joined-cops-to-fire-now-beating-up-witnesses-cbi/251917/0
  10. ↑ http://ceowestbengal.nic.in/RESULT2009/WIN_RUN_MARGIN.PDF

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