The All India Trinamool Congress (abbreviated AITC, TMC or Trinamool Congress) is a state
political partyA political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...
in
West BengalWest Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...
. Founded in 1 January 1998, the party is led by
Chief MinisterA Chief Minister is the elected head of government of a sub-national state, provinces of Sri Lanka, Pakistan, notably a state of India, a territory of Australia or a British Overseas Territory that has attained self-government...
Mamata BanerjeeMamata Banerjee is the 11th and current chief minister of the Indian state of West Bengal. She is the first woman to hold the office. Banerjee founded All India Trinamool Congress in 1997 and became chairperson, after separating from the Indian National Congress...
. Trinamool Congress is currently the second largest member of the ruling
United Progressive AllianceThe United Progressive Alliance is a ruling coalition of center-left political parties heading the government of India. The coalition is led by the Indian National Congress , which is currently the single largest political party in the Lok Sabha...
(UPA) coalition. It is currently the sixth largest party in Lok Sabha with 19 seats.
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 IndiaThe Election Commission of India is an autonomous, quasi-judiciary constitutional body of India. Its mission is to conduct free and fair elections in 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 poll, TMC won 7 seats. One more Lok Sabha election was held in 1999, in which Trinamool Congress won 8 seats with BJP, thus increasing the tally by one. In 2000, TMC won the municipality election, Kolkata Municipal Corporation Election. In 2001 Vidhan Sabha election, TMC won 60 seats with congress(I). In 2004 Lok Sabha election, TMC performed won 1 seat with Congress . In 2006 Vidhan Sabha election, TMC won 30 seats with Congress.
In the
West Bengal state assembly election, 2011The West Bengal state assembly election, 2011 was held in six phases between 18 April and 10 May 2011 for all the 294 seats of the Vidhan Sabha in the state of West Bengal in India. The Trinamool Congress won an absolute majority of seats. Swami Ramdev backed Mamta and actively campaigned with his...
, TMC won a majority of 184 seats (out of 294). Mamata Banerjee became Chief Minister.
Nandigram movement
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. 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. A large number of intellectuals protested on the streets and this incident gave birth of a new movement. Trinamool Congress leader
Suvendu AdhikariSuvendu Adhikari is a member of the 15th Lok Sabha. He was elected as a Trinamool Congress candidate from Tamluk . An honours graduate, he was born on 15 December 1970.He is the son of Sisir Adhikari....
(currently MP of Tamluk) led the movement.
Singur movement
In 2006, West Bengal government decided to set up a car factory for
Tata GroupTata Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Tata Group is one of the largest companies in India by market capitalization and revenue. It has interests in communications and information technology, engineering, materials, services, energy,...
by acquiring 1000 acres (4 km²) land in
SingurSingur is a census town in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Singur railway station is 34 km from Howrah Station on the Howrah-Tarakeswar line. It is 2 km ahead of Kamarkundu junction, the crossing point of Howrah-Bardhaman chord and Howrah-Tarakeshwar lines. It is on...
. 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 PatkarMedha Patkar is an Indian social activist. She is known for her role in Narmada Bachao Andolan. She has also filed a public interest petition in the Bombay high court against Lavasa along with other members of National Alliance of People's Movements , including Anna Hazare.-Personal life:Medha...
, Anuradha Talwar, Booker prize-winning author
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy is an Indian novelist. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and has also written two screenplays and several collections of essays...
, and Magsaysay and Jnanpith Award-winning author
Mahasweta DeviMahasweta Devi is an Indian social activist and writer.- Biography :Mahasweta Devi was born in 1926 in Dhaka, to literary parents in a Hindu Brahmin family. Her father Manish Ghatak was a well known poet and novelist of the Kallol era, who used the pseudonym Jubanashwa...
. In 2008, Tata Group decided to pull out of Singur.
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.
Members of Parliament from All India Trinamool Congress-
- Mamata Banerjee (South Kolkata)
- Saugata Roy (Dum Dum)
- C.M.Jatua (Mathurapur-Sc)
- Dinesh Trivedi (Barrackpore)
- Sisir Adhikari (Contai)
- Sultan Ahmed (Uluberia)
- Dr. Sucharu Ranjan Halder (Ranaghat)
- Gobinda Ch. Naskar (Bangaon)
- Haji Nurul Islam (Basirhat)
- Kalyan Kr. Banerjee (Sreerampur)
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- Kabir Suman (Jadavpur)
- Satabdi Roy (Birbhum)
- Ambika Banerjee (Howrah)
- Dr. Ratna De Nag (Hoogly)
- Somendra Nath Mitra
Somendra Nath Mitra , popularly known as Somen Mitra, is an Indian politician. He is a member of the current 15th Lok Sabha, elected from the Diamond Harbour constituency in West Bengal state in 2009. He was a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Sealdah from 1972-2006. He was the...
(Diamond Harbour)
- Sudip Bandyopadhyay
Sudip Bandyopadhyay is a member of the 15th Lok Sabha. He was elected as a Trinamool Congress candidate from Kolkata. He was MP from Calcutta North West during 1998-2004. Currently he is the chief spokesperson of Trinamool Congress in Loksabha.-References:...
(Kolkata North)
- Dr. Smt. Kakali Ghosh Dastidar (Barasat)
- Suvendu Adhikari (Tamluk)
- Tapas Pal (Krishnanagar)
- Joseph Toppo (Tezpur,Assam)
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Members of Rajya Sabha from All India Trinamool Congress
Mukul Roy,
Swapan Sadhan Bose,
Srinjoy Bose,
Sukhendusekhar Roy,
Derek O' Brien,
Debabrata Bandyopadhyay
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 BandyopadhyaySudip Bandyopadhyay is a member of the 15th Lok Sabha. He was elected as a Trinamool Congress candidate from Kolkata. He was MP from Calcutta North West during 1998-2004. Currently he is the chief spokesperson of Trinamool Congress in Loksabha.-References:...
, Minister of Health
2010 municipality elections
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.
2011 state legislative elections
In the
West Bengal state assembly election, 2011The West Bengal state assembly election, 2011 was held in six phases between 18 April and 10 May 2011 for all the 294 seats of the Vidhan Sabha in the state of West Bengal in India. The Trinamool Congress won an absolute majority of seats. Swami Ramdev backed Mamta and actively campaigned with his...
, the Trinamool Congress led TMC-
INCThe Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...
-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
Leadership
- Mamata Banerjee
Mamata Banerjee is the 11th and current chief minister of the Indian state of West Bengal. She is the first woman to hold the office. Banerjee founded All India Trinamool Congress in 1997 and became chairperson, after separating from the Indian National Congress...
. Party leader & Chief Minister of West Bengal. She was the Leader of the party in ParliamentThe Lok Sabha or House of the People is the lower house of the Parliament of India. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by direct election under universal adult suffrage. As of 2009, there have been fifteen Lok Sabhas elected by the people of India...
.
- Partha Chatterjee
Partha Chatterjee is an Indian politician of West Bengal. He represents Trinamool Congress.-Early life:Partha Chatterjee was born in Calcutta...
. Leader of the party in Legislative AssemblyThe Vidhan Sabha or the Legislative Assembly is the lower house or the sole house of the provincial legislature in the different states of India. The same name is also used for the lower house of the legislatures for two of the union territories, Delhi and Pondicherry...
of West BengalWest Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...
- Swapan Sadhan Bose
Swapan Sadhan Bose is an Indian politician from All India Trinamool Congress is presently a Member of the Parliament of India representing West Bengal in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament....
. Leader of the party in the upper house of the ParliamentThe Rajya Sabha or Council of States is the upper house of the Parliament of India. Rajya means "state," and Sabha means "assembly hall" in Sanskrit. Membership is limited to 250 members, 12 of whom are chosen by the President of India for their expertise in specific fields of art, literature,...
.
See also
- Indian National Congress breakaway parties
Since India gained independence in 1947, the Indian National Congress has seen a steady number of splits and breakaway factions. Some of the breakaway organizations have thrived as independent parties, some have become defunct, while others have merged with the parent party or other political...
- List of political parties in India
- Politics of India
The politics of India takes place within the framework of a federal constitutional republic, in which the President of India is head of state and the Prime Minister of India is the head of government. Executive power is exercised by the President and is independent of the legislature...
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