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.
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This submission extends beyond Bengal. It could cover Delhi and Haryana, possibly other states as well. Subject to the caveat that the support base of different parties is not always or easily transferable. 2. After today’s result, the Congress is looking less a national colossus, which the BJP has become, more primus inter pares amongst the regional parties. Had the Alliance succeeded in UP, it could have had more seats than the Congress now does. Allying with the DMK has given the party one of its few saving graces today. The alliance with the RJD has not clicked for the Lok Sabha, but it might work better in the Assembly election next year. Perhaps a working arrangement can be worked out with AAP for Delhi and Haryana. The emotional bond with the NCP in Maharashtra needs to be more mazboot. In some northern states other than UP, the Congress and the BSP can be good for each other. 3. A few days back, Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad made the perfectly reasonable point that the Congress would not make an issue of the PM’s post. It would go with the consensus. Within hours, Shri Surjewala contradicted him, saying, No, our President is in the reckoning. Aap aur hum toh casual commentators hain, did these worthies not pick up any indication of the SLBM that was headed their way …