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All India Trinamool Congress

EFFORTS BY- Swara Patel, Vedant Suthar


Symbol

Jora Ghas Phul (Flower and Grass)


Other Facts
• Ma Mati Manush’ is the slogan of the party that
means  "Mother, Motherland and People“.
• After the 2019 Indian general election, the party
status is under revision by the Election
Commission of India.
• It also runs a Bengali newspaper ‘Jago Bangla’.
• It is currently the fifth-largest party.
Formation
• Founded on 1 January 1998 by Mamta Banerjee with a split from INC.
• Registered under Election Commission of India during mid-December
1999.
• Got national status on 2 September 2016.
• It is present in states of West Bengal, Tripura,Assam, Manipur, Odisha,
Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Sikkim, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh.
• Since 2011 it is in power in West Bengal.
• Alliances – NDA(1999-2009), UPA(2009-2012), Federal Front(2019)
• It won 34 seats in 2014 and 22 in 2019 Lok Sabha Elections.
Ideology
•Secularism
•Federalism
•Anti-communism
•Populism
•Bengali Nationalism
Important leaders
•Mamata Banerjee
•Subrata Bakshi
•Derek O'Brien
•Partha Chatterjee
•Sudip Bandyopadhyay
•Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar
•Suvendu Adhikari
•Kalyan Banerjee
•Abhishek Banerjee
•Firhad Hakim
Important Contribution
• The protests in Nandigram and Singur in 2006 against the
CPM government’s firing on peasants and farmers in the
region. It was popularly known as the Nadigram movement.
• Bhoomi Uchched Protirodh Committee (BUPC), which
protested the CPIM’s land-grabbing and eviction policies.
• AITC also claims to have increase the number of jobs amongst
the poor people and the minority sections of the society.
• In its recent ‘Kanyashree’ scheme, the CM declared some
significant beneficiary policies for girl child in the family.
Controversies
• TMC was formed on basis of religious polarisation and
it continues minority appeasement.
• TMC practices authoritarian and violent politics
leading to many incidences of political murders /
crimes.
• TMC is accused of rampant corruption in all forms of
administration.
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