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.
I am a communist follower. But in the matter of faith, I believe we shall have a cautious turn around. We shall neither be against faith nor allow the religion and caste to ride over the right of the people. We shall understand the realities, that we shall take a neutral path allowing people with religious faith inside the party. Party shall stop criticising the god and faith and at the same time expose the Pontiffs, Maulanas and Muttt leaders playing their Orchestra using the emotional relation of people with religion. We shall speak more with the open mind.
Extreme RSS hatred of Communists is sure way of their political suffocation and destruction. Their wish to have presence at Hindu religious gatherings is like a cat declaring herself a vegetarian but continue to eat rats. Hindus have a long experience of communists and no gimmick will work with Hindus as
having easy fooling of Muslims by merely showing hatred of RSS.
Communist want to setup only at temples? They don’t have guts to setup at mosques. If the purpose of communism is to encourage secularism, why they want to disturb the environment of temples. What right they have to appoint secular people to manage the temples. Temples must be overseen by the devotees who has their hearts into it, not by atheists. Their agenda is certainly nonsense and dangerous.