| All India Trinamool Congress | |
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| Chairperson | Mamata Banerjee (Chief Minister) |
| Leader in Lok Sabha | Sudip Bandyopadhyay |
| Leader in Rajya Sabha | Mukul Roy |
| Founded | 1 January 1998 |
| Headquarters | 30B, Harish Chatterjee Street, Kolkata - 700 026 |
| Newspaper | Jago Bangla (Bengali) |
| Student wing | Trinamool Chhatra Parishad |
| 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 | Populism Democratic socialism Secularism |
| Official colours | Bright Green |
| ECI Status | State party[2] |
| Alliance | United Progressive Alliance (UPA) |
| Seats in Lok Sabha |
19 / 545
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| Seats in Rajya Sabha |
6 / 250
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| Election symbol | |
| Website | |
| aitmc.org | |
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The All India Trinamool Congress (abbreviated AITMC, TMC or Trinamool Congress) is a state political party in West Bengal. Founded in 1 January 1998, the party is led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Trinamool Congress is currently the second largest member of the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coalition. It is currently the sixth largest party in Lok Sabha with 19 seats.
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After remaining with the INC for over 2 decades, Mamata Banerjee 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. She entered into an alliance with the BJP in 1999.
In the 1998 Lok Sabha poll, TMC won 7 seats.[3] One more Lok Sabha election was held in 1999, in which Trinamool Congress won 8 seats with BJP, thus increasing the tally by one.[4] In 2000, TMC won the municipality election, Kolkata Municipal Corporation Election. In 2001 Vidhan Sabha election, TMC won 60 seats with congress(I).[5] In 2004 Lok Sabha election, TMC performed won 1 seat with Congress .[6] In 2006 Vidhan Sabha election, TMC won 30 seats with Congress. In the West Bengal state assembly election, 2011, TMC won a majority of 184 seats (out of 294). Mamata Banerjee became Chief Minister. TMC also has 5 MLAs in Arunachal Pradesh Assembly, 1 member each in Manipur Assembly and Assam Assembly.
In December 2006, the people of Nandigram were given notice by Haldia Development Authority that major portion of Nandigram would be seized and 70,000 people be evicted from their homes.[7] 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.[8] 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.
In 2006, West Bengal government decided to set up a car factory for Tata Group by acquiring 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) land in Singur. People of the area protested against this acquisition and Trinamool Congress took leading role in galvanizing peasants against acquisition. Protests went on and Trinamool Congress head Mamata Banerjee went for hunger strike. The movement received support from a section of human rights groups, legal bodies, social activists like Medha Patkar, Anuradha Talwar, Booker prize-winning author Arundhati Roy, and Magsaysay and Jnanpith Award-winning author Mahasweta Devi. [9]In 2008, Tata Group decided to pull out of Singur.
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. Members of Parliament from All India Trinamool Congress-
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[10] [11] After Mamata Banerjee's resign from Lok Sabha, Subrata Bakshi won from her constituency and is now the MP of lok sabha from South Calcutta Constituency.
Members of Rajya Sabha from All India Trinamool Congress Mukul Roy, Kanwar Deep Singh, Srinjoy Bose, Sukhendusekhar Roy, Derek O' Brien, Debabrata Bandyopadhyay [12]
Current Cabinet Minister from All India Trinamool Congress
Dinesh Trivedi, Cabinet Minister of Railways, Mukul Roy, Minister of State for Shipping, Saugata Roy, Minister of State for Urban Development, C.M.Jatua, Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, Sisir Adhikari, Minister of State for Rural Development, Sultan Ahmed, Minister of State for Tourism Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Minister of Health [13]
Trinamool Congress won the Kolkata Civic polls as it came away with 97 seats out of 141. Trinamool Congress also won the renowned BidhanNagar (SaltLake) municipality and a majority of the other municipalities.[14]
In the West Bengal state assembly election, 2011, the Trinamool Congress led TMC-INC-SUCI(C) alliance won 227 seats, in the 294 seat legislature. Trinamool Congress alone won 184 seats becoming an one-party majority in the legislative assembly. The 34 year old Marxist rule ended in catastrophic defeat, with the CPI-M garnering just 40 seats - less than 15%.
Government of West Bengal Cabinet Ministers
Mamata Banerjee - Chief Minister, Home, Personnel & Administrative Reforms, Information & Cultural Affairs, Power, Land & Land Reforms, Health & Family Affairs, Hill Affairs, Minority Affairs & Madarsa, Subrata Bakshi - Public Works Department and Transport, Partha Chatterjee- Commerce & Industries, Parliamentary Affairs, Public Enterprise and Industrial Reconstruction, Information Technology, Amit Mitra- Finance and Excise, Manish Gupta-Development & Planning, Subrata Mukherjee- Public Health & Engineering, Abdul Karim Chowdhury- Mass Education Extension and Library Services, Upen Biswas-Backward Classes Welfare, Javed Ahmed Khan- Disaster Management, Fire & Emergency Services and Civil Defence, Sabitri Mitra- Woman & Child Development and Social Welfare, Jyotipriyo Mullick- Food and Supply, H A Safwi- Cooperation and Inland Water Transport, Moloy Ghatak- Law & Judicial, Purnendu Bose- Labour, Rachpal Singh- Tourism, Hiten Burman- Forest, Gautam Deb- North Bengal Development, Noore Alam Chowdhury- Animal Resources Development, Shankar Chakraborty- Non-Conventional Energy Sources, Correctional Administration, Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar- Environment, Ujjal Biswas- Youth Services, Shyama Pr Bratya Basu- School Education, Higher Education, Rabiranjan Chattopadhyay - Education & Training, Science & Technology and Bio-Technology, Shantiram Mahato- Self-Help Group and Self Employment, Ministers of State Manjul Krishna Thakur- Refugee Relief and Rehabilitation (Independent Charge), Micro Small-Scale Enterprises and Textiles (Mos), Madan Mitra- Sports (Independent Charge), Subrata Saha- Public Works Department (Mos), Shyamal Mandal- Sunderbans Affairs (Independent), Irrigation and Waterways [15]