TopicTrinamool Congress

Topic: Trinamool Congress

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.

Mahua Moitra is ‘jack-in-the-box’ without a godfather. Her entire life choices are on trial

+TFP Vandana Menon - October 26, 2023

Mahua Moitra's credentials as JP Morgan's ex-VP who left the high-rises of New York and London to work at the grassroots in West Bengal have taken a back seat to the whisper network.

Rebuffed ‘cash-to-not-question’ offer from Adani, says Mahua Moitra — ‘bribe allegations a hit job’

Sreyashi Dey - October 23, 2023

In interview to 'The Telegraph', Mahua Moitra says, as MP, she is allowed to use all means to seek info to ask questions, & utilise any info given to her to ask question.

‘Nothing to say’: TMC distances itself from Mahua Moitra controversy, INDIA partners too tread warily

Sourav Roy Barman - October 21, 2023

Days after its MP was accused of asking questions in Lok Sabha on behalf of a business group, TMC breaks its silence. INDIA partners like Congress, too, want to ‘study matter’ first.

Mahua Moitra has asked 62 questions in LS. Here’s what she wanted to know on Adani & Hiranandani

Sourav Roy Barman - October 21, 2023

In letter to LS Speaker, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, relying on allegations made by advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai, has alleged Mahua Moitra asked questions at behest of Hiranandani Group.

What Bihar caste survey means for INDIA bloc: Congress, AAP, SP welcome move, TMC silent

Ishadrita Lahiri - October 2, 2023

Within Congress, the release of the Bihar caste data will mean that high command in Delhi is likely to push the party-run Karnataka government to release data from its 2015 caste census.

Firhad Hakim, Kunal Ghosh bat for Mamata as PM at Kolkata event, TMC says ‘not party line’

Sreyashi Dey - August 14, 2023

Trinamool spokesperson says the Bengal CM herself has said she doesn’t want the PM’s chair, and the party leaders had expressed their ‘personal views' at conclave of TMC supporters.

‘Trinamool reigns in the heart of Bengal,’ says Mamata after emphatic win in panchayat polls

ThePrint Team - July 12, 2023

Elections to the violence-hit 3-tier rural councils – the gram panchayats, panchayat samitis and zila parishads – were held on 8 July and counting began on the 11th.

TMC sweeps Bengal rural polls with 18k+ gram panchayat seats. BJP, CPIM-Congress compete for 2nd place

Sreyashi Dey - July 11, 2023

Counting was underway at 339 counting centres for 63,229 gram panchayat seats following which counting will begin for 9,730 panchayat samiti seats and 928 zilla parishad seats.

RTI activist, North Bengal honcho, Muslim professor — Trinamool’s 3 new faces for Rajya Sabha

Sreyashi Dey - July 10, 2023

Apart from these 3, Bengal’s ruling party is retaining 3 old faces while BJP looks to wrest the 7th vacant seat.

Bengal governor targets election commissioner on ‘poll violence’ — ‘don’t underestimate power of common man’

Sreyashi Dey - July 7, 2023

Governor CV Ananda Bose Monday gave election commissioner Rajiva Sinha 48 hours to rein in violence. Ruling Trinamool says Bose should be in 'BJP's double-engine government'.

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