The All India Trinamool Congress (also known as the Trinamool Congress and abbreviated AITC) is a major political party in India led by Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee. Founded in 1997, it consisted largely of defectors from the Indian National Congress in West Bengal. The party is currently the member of the ruling United Progressive Alliance coalition.
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[edit] Split in the Indian National Congress and formation of Trinamool Congress
Mamata Banerjee was expelled from Indian National Congress on 22 December, 1997. She formed her own party, the “Trinamool Congress”, which was registered with the Election Commission of India during mid-December, 1997. The Election Commission alloted to the party an exclusive symbol of Jora Ghas Phul, which symobizes down-trodden grass-root flowers.
[edit] Split in Trinamool Congress
Six years after its formation, the Trinamool Congress suffered a split in 2005 when Subrata Mukherjee floated a separate platform following differences with party chief Mamata Banerjee over the question of allying with the Indian National Congress.
[edit] General Elections
In the 1999 Lok Sabha elections, Trinamool Congress received 26% of the votes and eight seats, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) retaining control of most of the remaining seats in the State Assembly. However the Trinamool Congress managed to win control of Kolkata in municipal elections in 2000, only to lose it again to the CPI (M) in June 2005. Party gained a huge boost with the winning of Gram Panchayat and Zilla Parishad Elections recently. In alliance with Congress for Lok Sabha Election 2009, it has already secured 26 (this includes Cong's seat also) out of 42 constituencies in West Bengal. This is the best performance of any non-left political party to be achieved ever since the Left Front came to power.
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