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.
EC has forbidden campagining in view of Covid situation. BJP is adhering to that, Mamata with her huge rallies is not.
When covid will spread through such rallies will The Print blame Mamata or somehow it will be Modi’s fault?
no lutyen jnu leftist mention campaign by mamta. of course for them covid does not spread through Mamta rallies
I hope the media including theprint got what it wanted. I have never seen a democracy with such astronomical amount of stupidity. While everywhere people fight for elections, only in india do you have the opposite. All of you in the media stood by mamata and her unconstitutional criminal inhumane acts of killing Left, congress and mainly the BJP workers. You all stood by a regime which believes in taking a cut for every scheme, commission in every govt activity, blatant islamist appeasement, hurting old woman because she’s the mother of a bjp worker and many more. The horrible blot that Mamata is to India’s democracy. And you all stood by her just out of sheer hatred for one man. You hounded him for campaigning but are silent on mamata. Good for you.
It is condemnable that Mamta Banerjee as WB chief minister didn’t attend a single meeting of organised by PM to tackle Covid in India.
Medias plan has succeeded. Get everyone to cancel their rallies so that Mamata can conduct her own. In these article as well we wont find anything that says she is CM of WB and is doing something to control the pandemic.