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The All India Trinamool Congress (transl. All India Grassroots Congress ; abbr. AITC ) is an Indian political party that is mainly influential in the state of West Bengal . [ 19 ] It was founded by Mamata Banerjee on 1 January 1998 as a breakaway faction from the Indian National Congress and rapidly rose to prominence in the politics of West ...
Indian National Congress: Mallikarjun Kharge: 99 29 682 60 National Party: SP: Samajwadi Party: Akhilesh Yadav: 37 3 112 10 Uttar Pradesh: AITC: All India Trinamool Congress: Mamata Banerjee: 29 13 228 – West Bengal, Meghalaya: DMK: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam: M. K. Stalin: 22 10 139 – Puducherry, Tamil Nadu: SHS(UBT) Shiv Sena (Uddhav ...
Politics in West Bengal is dominated by the following major political parties: the All India Trinamool Congress, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Bharatiya Janata Party, the National People's Party and the Indian National Congress. For many decades, the state underwent gruesome and terrible political violence. [1]
The Narada sting operation was a sting operation carried out by Mathew Samuel targeting high-ranking officials and politicians of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC). It showed several politicians and a high-ranked police officer accepting cash bribes in exchange for providing unofficial favors to a company.
Mahua Moitra (Bengali pronunciation: [mohua: moì¯tro]; born 12 October 1974) is an Indian politician and former investment banker. [3] She won the 2019 Indian general election as an Trinamool Congress (TMC) party candidate from Krishnanagar [4] and served as a Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from 2019 to 2023 until being expelled.
All India Trinamool Congress won with an enhanced majority contesting alone and became the first ruling party to win without an ally since 1962 in West Bengal. In 2017 Kanyashree , a scheme launched by her government, was ranked the best by the United Nations among 552 social sector schemes from across 62 countries.
Arup Chakraborty (b. 5 August 1956) is an Indian politician from West Bengal. A member of Trinamool Congress, he is serving as member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Taldangra constituency in Bankura since 2021.
In the previous assembly election in 2011, the All India Trinamool Congress, under the leadership of Mamata Banerjee, won a majority and ended the 34-year rule of the Left Front government. During 2011 election, the main theme of TMC was paribartan (meaning "change"), implying it was time to change the Left Front reign of 34-years in the state.