All India Trinamool Congress

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All India Trinamool Congress
সর্বভারতীয় তৃণমূল কংগ্রেস
Chairperson Mamata Banerjee
(Chief Minister)
Leader in Lok Sabha Sudip Bandyopadhyay
Leader in Rajya Sabha Mukul Roy
Founded 1 January 1998 (1998-01-01)
Headquarters 30B, Harish Chatterjee Street,
Kolkata - 700 026
Newspaper Jago Bangla (Bengali)
Student wing Trinamool Chhatra Parishad
Youth wing All India Trinamool Yuva
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
Socialism
Secularism
Political position Centre-left
Colours Bright Green  
ECI Status State party[2]
Seats in Lok Sabha
19 / 545
Seats in Rajya Sabha
9 / 245
Election symbol
Website
aitmc.org
Politics of India
Political parties
Elections

The All India Trinamool Congress (Bengali: সর্বভারতীয় তৃণমূল কংগ্রেস; Hindi: सर्वभारतीय तृणमूल कांग्रेस; abbreviated AITMC, TMC or Trinamool Congress) is a sub-national state-level ("state party") ruling political party in West Bengal. Founded on January 1, 1998, the party was led by Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee. It is currently the sixth largest party in Lok Sabha with 19 seats.

On 18 September 2012, TMC Chief, Mamata Banerjee, announced her decision to withdraw support to the UPA after the TMC's demands of rollback of reforms including FDI in retail, increase in the price of diesel and limiting the number of subsidised cooking gas cylinders for households, were not met.[3][4]

History

Formation of the party

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.

Performance in elections

In the 1998 Lok Sabha polls, TMC won 7 seats.[5] In the next Lok Sabha election that was held in 1999, Trinamool Congress won 8 seats with BJP, thus increasing its tally by one.[6] In 2000, TMC won the Kolkata Municipal Corporation Elections. In the 2001 Vidhan Sabha elections, TMC won 60 seats with Congress(I).[7] In the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, TMC won 1 seat with Congress(I) .[8] In the 2006 Vidhan Sabha elections, TMC won 30 seats with Congress(I). In the West Bengal state assembly election, 2011, TMC won a majority of 184 seats (out of 294). Mamata Banerjee became the Chief Minister. TMC also has 5 MLAs in the Arunachal Pradesh Assembly,7 MLAs in the Manipur Assembly and 1 MLA in Assam and 1 MLA in Uttar Pradesh. TMC also have 1 MP in Rajya sabha from Jharkhand.

After the Big Bang reforms declared by UPA, TMC expressed it disappointment on the reforms. TMC threatened to withdraw support from UPA and gave 72hrs for withdrawing the Reforms. On 18 Sep, 2012 Evening Mamata Banarjee declared her party has withdrawn support from UPA and will run independently. TMC's Minister will be submitting resignation on Friday 21 Sept, 2012.

Ma Mati Manush

Main article: Ma Mati Manush

Ma Mati Manush was a primarily slogan, coined by All India Trinamool Congress chief and current chief minister Mamata Banerjee. The term is literally translated as "Mother, Motherland and People". The slogan became very popular in West Bengal during 2011 assembly election. Later, Mamata Banerjee wrote a Bengali book with the same title.[9] A song was also recorded with the same title to glorify the theme. According to report published in June 2011, it was one of the six most popular political slogan of India at that time.[10]

Nandigram movement

Main article: Nandigram violence

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.[11] 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.[12] A large number of intellectuals protested on the streets and this incident gave birth of a new movement. SUCI(C) leader Nanda Patra (A school Teacher of Tamluk) led the movement.

Post-Nandigram/Singur elections

In the 2009 Lok Sabha election, Trinamool Congress won 19 seats from West Bengal.

In the 2010 Kolkata municipal election, the party won 97 out of 141 seats. It also won a majority of other municipalities.[13]

2011 legislative assembly election

In the West Bengal state assembly election, 2011, the Trinamool Congress led alliance that included the INC and SUCI(C) alliance won 227 seats in the 294 seat legislature. Trinamool Congress alone won 184 seats enabling it to govern without an alliance. Now one by election won in Basirhat and two congress MLA change to TMC, now total seat in Assembly is 187

Government of West Bengal Cabinet Ministers[14]
  • 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 PrLK
  • 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

Leadership

Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal of the Republic of India and leader of the All India Trinamool Congress.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Telegraph". 
  2. ↑ "Election Commission of India". 
  3. ↑ "Rupee falls after TMC pulls out from government". Monetcontrol.com. Retrieved 20 September 2012. 
  4. ↑ "Mamata's party ready to meet President tomorrow to officially quit UPA". NDTV. Retrieved 20 September 2012. 
  5. ↑ http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/SR_KeyHighLights/LS_1998/Vol_I_LS_98.pdf
  6. ↑ http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/SR_KeyHighLights/LS_1999/Vol_I_LS_99.pdf
  7. ↑ http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/SR_KeyHighLights/SE_2001/StatRept_WB_2001.pdf
  8. ↑ http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/SR_KeyHighLights/LS_2004/Vol_I_LS_2004.pdf
  9. ↑ "Ma Mati Manush book". Retrieved 8 March 2013. 
  10. ↑ Nandigram says 'No!' to Dow's chemical hub
  11. ↑ "CPM cadres joined cops to fire, now beating up witnesses: CBI". Indian Express. 2007-12-19. Retrieved 2012-07-12. 
  12. ↑ "Mamata wins Bengal civic polls, demands early elections". Ndtv.com. 2010-06-02. Retrieved 2012-07-12. 
  13. ↑ "All India Trinamool Congress :: Elected Representatives". Aitmc.org. 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2012-07-12. 

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