Trinamool Congress

All India Trinamool Congress
AbbreviationAITC (official)
TMC (alternatives)
ChairpersonMamata Banerjee
(Chief Minister of West Bengal)
General SecretaryAbhishek Banerjee
Parliamentary ChairpersonSudip Bandyopadhyay
Lok Sabha LeaderSudip Bandyopadhyay
Rajya Sabha LeaderDerek O' Brien
FounderMamata Banerjee
Founded1 January 1998 (1998-01-01)
Split fromIndian National Congress
Headquarters30B Harish Chatterjee Street, Kolkata 700026
NewspaperJago Bangla (Bengali)
Student wingTrinamool Chaatra Parishad
Youth wingAll India Trinamool Youth Congress
Women's wingTrinamool Mahila Congress
Labour wingIndian National Trinamool Trade Union Congress
Peasant's wingTrinamool Kisan Khet Majdur Congress
Ideology
Political position
Colours  Green
SloganJoy Bangla
Khela Hobe (Electoral Slogan)
Ma Mati Manush (Political Slogan)
ECI StatusState Party
AllianceNDA (1998–2006)
UPA (2009–2012)
I.N.D.I.A. (2023–present)
Seats in Lok Sabha
28 / 543
Seats in Rajya Sabha
12 / 245
Seats in State Legislative Assemblies
227 / 4,036
Indian states
222 / 294
(West Bengal)
5 / 60
(Meghalaya)
Number of states and union territories in government
1 / 31
Election symbol
Party flag
Website
aitcofficial.org
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The All India Trinamool Congress (transl. All India Grassroots Congress; abbr. AITC), simply known as Trinamool Congress, is an Indian political party that is mainly influential in the state of West Bengal. 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 Bengal under her leadership. Presently, it is ruling the state of West Bengal beside being the third-largest party in India in terms of number of MPs just after the BJP and INC.

The party won a historic victory in the 2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election by defeating the 34-year-long Left Front rule, world's longest democratically elected communist government. It has won a three-time majority in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly and has been the ruling party in West Bengal since 20 May 2011. AITC is led by Mamata Banerjee as the chairperson of the party.

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