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All India Trinamool Congress
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All India Trinamool Congress, formerly West Bengal Trinamool Congress, (WBTC), is a political party in India led by Mamata Banerjee. Founded in 1997, it consisted largely of defectors from the Indian National Congress in Bengal.
History
Split in the Indian National Congress and formation of Trinamool Congress
Mamata Banerjee was expelled from Indian National Congress on 22nd December, 1997 and she formed her own party and cheristened it as “Trinamool Congress”. The party got itself 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”. The Jora Ghas Phul designed by Mamata Banerjee herself, symbolises the down-trodden grass-root flowers.
Split in Trinamool Congress
After six years of the formation Trinamool Congress suffered a split in 2005 when Subrata Mukherjee floated a separate platform following differences with party chief Mamata Banerjee over the question of allying with the Indian National Congress. Subrata Mukherjee, the then Kolkata Municipal Corporation Mayor, and claimed that he had support of 10 of Trinamool's 59 members of Legislative Assembly and 11 of the 55 councillors.[3]
General Elections
In the Lok Sabha elections in 1999 AITC got 2.6% of votes and eight seats, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) retaining control of most of the remaining seats in the State Assembly. However the Trinamool Congress managed to win control of Kolkata in municipal elections in 2000, only to lose it again to the CPI (M) in June 2005.
Ahead of the 2004 Lok Sabha elections P.A. Sangma's break-away fraction of the Nationalist Congress Party merged into the party.
Bangla Bandh (General Strike)
Trinamool Congress is noted for calling frequent general strike and disrupt [4] normal life in West Bengal. In April 2008, Trinamool Congress called upon its weapon once again - another 12-hour total West Bengal state shutdown 'Bandh'[5] protesting against overall price increase in all commodities & inflationary effect on the common man.
Leadership
- Mamata Banerjee
- Krishna Basu
- Sonali Guha
- Kakali Ghosh Dastidar
- Shovandeb Chattopadhya
- Amar Banerjee
- Sultan Ahmed
- Chitta Mondal
- Biman Banerjee
- Gobinda Chandra Naskar
- Partha Chatterjee
- Javed Ahmed Khan
- Sadhan Pande
- Tapas Pal
- Jyotipriya Mallick
- Swapan Sadhan Bose
- Shubhendu Adhikari
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