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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 ...
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.
Mahua Moitra (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 (TMC) ... The party came into being nearly 25 years ago after it splintered from the Congress. Founder of the party Mamata Banerjee has been the state head for nearly ...
Abhishek Banerjee (born 8 November 1987), also known as Bhaipo (meaning "nephew" in Bengali), is an Indian Politician is a member of the All India Trinamool Congress and he is currently serving as a Member of Parliament, Diamond Harbour (Lok Sabha constituency), South 24 Parganas, West Bengal since 2014.
He had resigned from Trinamool Congress on 25 September 2017; later he was suspended from the party for six years for anti-party activities. He also resigned from Rajya Sabha membership on 11 October 2017. [5] He rejoined All India Trinamool Congress on 11 June 2021 along with his son in presence of Mamata Banerjee. [6]
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]
Considered to be a bastion of the Trinamool Congress, it has been won by the party since its formation in 1998. Prior to it, the seat was a stronghold of Indian National Congress. TMC's founder and current chief minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee was the longest holder of the seat.