The Trinamool Congress (TMC) or the All India Trinamool Congress (AITMC) is a political party based in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. It was founded by Mamata Banerjee in 1998 after she split from the Indian National Congress.
The party came to power in the state with Mamata Banerjee as the CM in 2011, defeating the Left Front in the Assembly elections and marking the end of the longest democratically elected Communist government in the world.
The Trinamool Congress led by Mamata Banerjee used the 2006-07 protests against the Left Front government over Nandigram and Singur to rally supporters and popularity in Bengal. It joined hands with the Congress in the state for the 2009 Lok Sabha elections and won 19 seats, thus joining the Manmohan Singh government at the Centre. Two years later, it ended the Left’s 34-year rule in Bengal. Earlier, though, the Trinamool had also aligned with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance in 1999, when Mamata Banerjee was made Railways Minister.
Besides dominating Bengal, the Trinamool Congress has also contested elections in Assam, Tripura, Meghalaya, and Goa. The party is one of the strong opposition voices in the Union parliament.
Owaisi is certainly no ‘alternative’ to Mamata in WB. But he can sure turn a respectable number of Muslims against her. TMC will not lose WB merely for that.
“CM Mamata Banerjee has a lifetime’s record of probity in public life.” – Character certificate issued by shri ashok JI.
Aap well read hain, Ek aur certificate issue kar diya …
There was a time when India had, almost contemporaneously, three powerful lady CMs, each thought of as a potential PM. Wouldn’t you agree that the certificate is well founded.
In Maharashtra, Shri Prakash Ambedkar has proved his utility as a Trojan horse. In Bengal, it appears that Shri Asaduddin Owaisi is being primed for a similar mission. CM Mamata Banerjee has a lifetime’s record of probity in public life. The voters of Bengal are now being promised, by way of Poriborton, NRC and CAB. Nothing as sweet as the K C Das rosogollas they have grown up eating.
Your comment corroborates that you are pompously opinionated person who wouldn’t hesitate at cleverly using pre-emptive insinuation to assuage your bruised ego. You are NOT only doubting the political ambition of Asaduddin Owaisi but also assuming that he is unintelligent, non-autonomous, ad incapable of carving his own constituency at his own will. You think he is a puppet like Manmohan Singh who can be easily led, manipulated and used by the party you hate. You are demented. I suggest you stop commenting for a while before your two feet are firmly in your mouth.
Well read hain, well mannered nahin kaha. I choose my words with care.
No more cross talk, sir. Let both of us address Print readers, not each other.
He is nothing more than neo-jihadi. Never forget his Razaakar roots.