The All India Trinamool Congress (
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: All India Grassroots Congress; AITC), colloquially the Trinamool Congress ( TMC) is an
Indian political party which is predominantly active in
West Bengal
West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fourt ...
.
The party is led by
Mamata Banerjee
Mamata Banerjee (; born 5 January 1955) is an Indian politician who is serving as the eighth and current List of chief ministers of West Bengal, chief minister of the States and union territories of India, Indian state of West Bengal since 20 ...
, the current
Chief Minister of West Bengal, who has led the state since 2011. It is currently the third largest party in
Parliament
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with 23 members in
Lok Sabha
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and 13 members in
Rajya Sabha
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and 235
MLAs
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in
State legislative assemblies of India
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, just after
BJP and
INC
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. In 2016 the
Election Commission
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recognised TMC as a
national political party.
History
Founding
After being a member of the
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...
(INC) for over 26 years,
Mamata Banerjee
Mamata Banerjee (; born 5 January 1955) is an Indian politician who is serving as the eighth and current List of chief ministers of West Bengal, chief minister of the States and union territories of India, Indian state of West Bengal since 20 ...
quit the INC and established the TMC in 1998. The official election symbol of the TMC is ''Jora Ghas Phul'' (two flowers with grass). In the 1998 Lok Sabha polls, TMC won 7 seats. In the next Lok Sabha election that was held in 1999, Trinamool Congress won 8 seats with BJP, thus increasing its tally by one. In 2000, TMC won the Kolkata Municipal Corporation Elections.
The party initially joined the
National Democratic Alliance
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(NDA), as part of the
Vajpayee government, and were initially quite successful, winning 7 seats in its
first election in 1998.
In the 2001 Vidhan Sabha elections, the TMC won 60 seats in alliance with the INC, becoming the principal opposition party. They suffered big losses in the
2004 Lok Sabha elections
General elections were held in India in four phases between 20 April and 10 May 2004. Over 670 million people were eligible to vote, electing 543 members of the 14th Lok Sabha. Seven states also held assembly elections to elect state governme ...
and the
2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
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,
and subsequently left the NDA.
Nandigram movement
In December 2006, the people of
Nandigram were given notice by Haldia Development Authority that a major portion of Nandigram would be seized and 70,000 people be evicted from their homes to make way for a chemical plant. People started movement against this land acquisition and the TMC helped lead the movement. The
Bhumi Uchchhed Pratirodh Committee ('Committee against Land Evictions'; BUPC) was formed to protest against the eviction. On 14 March 2007 the police opened fire and killed 14 villagers and many more went missing. Many sources claimed (and which was supported by the
Central Bureau of Investigation
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in its report) that armed
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)/CPIM/CPM) is a Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist communist List of political parties in India, political party in India. It is the largest communist party of India in term ...
cadres, along with police, fired on protesters in Nandigram Many intellectuals protested in the streets and this incident gave birth to a new movement.
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
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leader Nanda Patra led the movement. The events led to a significant backlash against the CPI(M) government, and were a major factor in the TMC's success in the elections that followed.
Post-Nandigram/Singur elections
In the
2009 Lok Sabha election, TMC won 19 seats in
West Bengal
West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fourt ...
, in alliance with the
Congress
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. They subsequently became a part of
Manmohan Singh
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's
government
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, with Banerjee serving as
Minister of Railways
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.
In the 2010 Kolkata municipal election, the party won 97 out of 141 seats. It also won a majority of other municipalities.
In government
In the
2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
Assembly election was held in Indian state of West Bengal in 2011 to elect the members of West Bengal Legislative Assembly as the term of the incumbent government was about to expire naturally. It was held in six phases between 18 April and 10 ...
, the TMC-led alliance that included the
INC
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and
SUCI(C)
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won 227 seats in the 294-seat legislature, defeating the incumbent
Left Front government which had been in power for 34 years.
TMC alone won 184 seats, enabling it to govern without an alliance. Subsequently, it won a by-election in
Basirhat
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and two Congress MLAs switched to the TMC, giving it a total of 187 seats. Banerjee, an
MP at the time, had not contested the election and had to transfer to the safe seat of
Bhabanipur.
On 18 September 2012 Banerjee announced her decision to withdraw support to the
UPA after the TMC's demands to undo government-instituted changes including
FDI in retail, increase in the price of diesel and limiting the number of subsidised cooking gas cylinders for households, were not met.
The
2014 Lok Sabha elections
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saw the TMC dominate the state, winning 34 out of the 42 seats. It also qualified for national party status, as the TMC had received 6% of the vote from five different states (
West Bengal
West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fourt ...
,
Manipur
Manipur () ( mni, Kangleipak) is a state in Northeast India, with the city of Imphal as its capital. It is bounded by the Indian states of Nagaland to the north, Mizoram to the south and Assam to the west. It also borders two regions of Myanm ...
,
Tripura
Tripura (, Bengali: ) is a state in Northeast India. The third-smallest state in the country, it covers ; and the seventh-least populous state with a population of 36.71 lakh ( 3.67 million). It is bordered by Assam and Mizoram to the east a ...
,
Jharkhand
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and
Assam
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).
On 2 September 2016 the
Election Commission
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recognized TMC as a national political party.
The party was reelected in the
2016 election to a supermajority government, and Banerjee continued as chief minister.
The party won the most seats in West Bengal in the
2019 Indian general election
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, but suffered significant losses to the
Bharatiya Janata Party
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, which for the first time established itself as a major force in the state. After the election, the party's status came under revision by the
Election Commission of India
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, due to a loss in presence in most states outside West Bengal.
Banerjee's government was reelected again in the
2021 state election by an unexpectedly large margin over the BJP. Prior to the election, several high-profile TMC members such as
Mukul Roy and
Suvendu Adhikari
Suvendu Adhikari (born 15 December 1970) is an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party who is the current Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from 10 May 2021. He is a member of the West Bengal Legislative ...
had defected to the BJP. Despite the large winning margin, Banerjee was defeated by Adhikari in the
Nandigram seat, where she had transferred to fight Adhikari head-on.
Presence in other states
Arunachal Pradesh
In 2020, an independent MLA
Chakat Aboh
Chakat Aboh is an All India Trinamool Congress politician. She was elected as a member of Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Khonsa West on 24 October 2019. She obtained 5,705 votes against 3,818 votes for her opponent, Azet Homtok. ...
joined the TMC.
Assam
In the 2001 Assam Legislative Assembly election,
Jamal Uddin Ahmed won
Badarpur constituency. He was a Trinamool Congress candidate. Since then, the party has not emphasized on any other organization. Later in 2018, the work of the organization started again under the leadership of Dr. M. Shanti Kumar Singha. In the 2021 assembly elections, it was decided to field candidates from 14 constituencies on behalf of the party.
All-India president of
Congress
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's women's wing and its national spokesperson and former
Silchar MP
Sushmita Dev
Sushmita Dev (born 25 September 1972) is an Indian politician and member of Rajya Sabha from West Bengal, and belongs to the All India Trinamool Congress. Previously, she was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India fro ...
joined the Trinamool Congress in August 2021. She is now an MP of Rajya Sabha.
Bihar
On 23 November 2021
Kirti Azad, a 3-time
MP from
Darbhanga
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Darbhanga is the headquarters of the Darbhanga district and the Darbhanga division. It was the seat of the erstw ...
and
Pavan Varma
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Early life and education
Varma was born in Nagpur. He earned a degree in history from St. Stephen's Colleg ...
, a former adviser to
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar
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, joined TMC.
Goa
With the
2022 Goa Legislative Assembly election
:
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Background
The tenure of Goa Legislative ...
approaching, the work of organizing the party started from September 2021. The work began with the participation of seven-time Goa Chief Minister
Luizinho Faleiro
Luizinho Faleiro (born 26 August 1951) is an All India Trinamool Congress politician from Goa who served as a General Secretary in the All India Congress Committee of Indian National Congress since 2013 and was In-charge of the 7 North Eastern ...
. Since then, the party has increased its membership in Goa. Former footballer
Denzil Franco
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Franco currently works as a colour commentator ...
and former tennis player
Leander Paes were among those who joined the party. On 13 November 2021,
Mahua Moitra
Mahua Moitra (born 12 October 1974) is an Indian politician and a Member of parliament in the 17th Lok Sabha from Krishnanagar, West Bengal. She contested and won the seat in the 2019 Indian general election as an All India Trinamool Congress ( ...
was appointed as the in-charge of the party in Goa to prepare it to contest in the Assembly election. MLA
Churchill Alemao
Churchill Braz Alemao (born 16 May 1949) is a former Chief Minister and former MP of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He was the MLA of Benaulim constituency in the state of Goa.
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Alemao was chief minister of Goa for a brief peri ...
joined TMC on 13 December.
Haryana
On 23 November 2021
Ashok Tanwar
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, former president of
Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee
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, joined TMC.
Sukhendu Shekhar Roy
Sukhendu Sekhar Roy is an Indian politician belonging to the Trinamool Congress. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha the Upper house of Indian parliament from West Bengal
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was appointed as in-charge of the party's
Haryana
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unit on 25 November.
Kerala
Kerala Pradesh Trinamool Congress was launched in 2009. In 2014 its candidates contested 5 seats under the party symbol in the
parliamentary election. Leaders like
Mukul Roy,
Derek O'Brien, Mahua Moitra and
Nadimul Haque
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Early life
He did his schooling from Saifee Golden Jubi ...
visited
Kerala
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and gave directions for further development in the party's activities. In the
2016 state election TMC contested in 70 assembly constituencies but due to technical errors, the party symbol was not accepted. On 3 August 2021 a 51-member state committee was formed and hoardings with caption ''"Call Didi Save India"'' were spread in parts of the state. Following leaders were elected in the committee – Manoj Sankaranellur (State President), Shamsu Payaningal (Working President), Shubash Kundannur (General Secretary), Harish Palathingal (State Secretary, Media & IT).
Manipur
In the
2012 assembly elections of
Manipur
Manipur () ( mni, Kangleipak) is a state in Northeast India, with the city of Imphal as its capital. It is bounded by the Indian states of Nagaland to the north, Mizoram to the south and Assam to the west. It also borders two regions of Myanm ...
, the party won 8 seats and got 10% of the total votes. It became the only opposition party in the
Manipur Legislative Assembly. In the 2017 assembly elections the party won only one seat (from
Thanga
Thanga ( Meitei pronunciation: /tʰáŋ.gə/) is an island village in the Loktak lake located in the Bishnupur district in the state of Manipur, India. In 2001, the population was 13085. 6514 were male. 6571 were female. The main occupation of th ...
) and received 5.4% of the total votes cast in the elections. Its lone member of the Manipur Legislative Assembly, Tongbram Robindro Singh, switched to the
BJP government in
Manipur
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in 2017. As of 18 June 2020, he has withdrawn support from the BJP, following the disqualification of 7 of its members, to support the
Indian National Congress
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.
Meghalaya
TMC candidate Purno Agitok Sangma won the
Tura constituency by a huge margin in the 2004 Lok Sabha election.
The party's
Meghalaya
Meghalaya (, or , meaning "abode of clouds"; from Sanskrit , "cloud" + , "abode") is a states and union territories of India, state in northeastern India. Meghalaya was formed on 21 January 1972 by carving out two districts from the state of As ...
unit was launched in 2012.
On 24 November 2021 former
Chief Minister of Meghalaya Mukul Sangma
Mukul Manda Sangma is an Indian politician who was Chief Minister of Meghalaya from 2010 to 2018 and is currently leader of the opposition in the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly. He has been a member of the All India Trinamool Congress since Nove ...
along with other 11 MLAs of INC joined TMC which made TMC the largest opposition party in
Meghalaya Legislative Assembly.
On 29 November
Charles Pyngrope
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was appointed as the president of AITC Meghalaya unit.
In 2022, one defected MLA who has earlier switched from INC quit the party and joined BJP.
Punjab
Shortly before the Assembly elections in 2017, the party started working on the Punjab organization under the leadership of Jagat Singh. After that, during the assembly elections, it was decided that they would field candidates for 20 constituencies on behalf of the party. The party, however, did not gain any seats in Punjab in that election. After that the party's organisational work in Punjab almost completely stopped. From 2019, the party started a new committee under the leadership of
Manjit Singh. Since then, the party has had a continuous presence in Punjab.
Tamil Nadu
In 2014, a state unit for the party was formed in
Tamil Nadu
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which was headed by Dr. Sabitha, who was responsible as the state convener and was appointed by the then-National-General-Secretary
Mukul Roy. In 2017 Mr. Saravanan had been appointed as the state general secretary. He formed the state committee to represent the party in Tamil Nadu. Since then, the party has been active in all social and political events.
Tripura
In 2010, Tripura Pradesh Trinamool Congress tried to establish an TMC government in the state of
Tripura
Tripura (, Bengali: ) is a state in Northeast India. The third-smallest state in the country, it covers ; and the seventh-least populous state with a population of 36.71 lakh ( 3.67 million). It is bordered by Assam and Mizoram to the east a ...
.
Under the leadership of
Sudip Roy Barman
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, former
leader of opposition
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and then
MLA of
Tripura
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, all six MLAs of the
Indian National Congress
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defected to the TMC in 2016, along with many ex-ministers, former MLAs, senior state and district level leaders, in addition to thousands of party workers and supporters, to fight CPI(M), who were running the
Government in Tripura. Later in the presence of
Himanta Biswa Sarma
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and
Dharmendra Pradhan
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, Barman defected to the BJP along with all of the other TMC MLAs of the Tripura Legislative Assembly after they cross-voted against party lines in the
2017 Indian presidential election
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.
In October 2021 MLA Ashish Das defected from BJP to TMC. The party won one seat in Ambassa Municipal council in the
2021 Tripura civic polls despite widespread violence. TMC emerged as the second largest party in terms of vote-share in the 120 seats it contested out of 334 seats as it garnered 19.9% of the votes in those seats.
Uttar Pradesh
The party's state unit in
Uttar Pradesh
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was set up in 2005.
In 2012,
Shyam Sunder Sharma
Shyam Sunder Sharma is an Indian politician and a member of the 16th Legislative Assembly of India. He represents the Mant constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party political party.
Early life and education
Shyam ...
contested the by-poll to
Mant constituency and won on a TMC ticket. He later defected to
BSP.
Neeraj Rai is the current president of TMC's state unit in Uttar Pradesh.
In October 2021, two senior Congress leaders of
Uttar Pradesh
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– Rajeshpati Tripathi and Laliteshpati Tripathi, who are the grandson and the great-grandson of
former UP Chief Minister Kamalapati Tripathi Kamalapati Tripathi (3 September 1905 – 8 October 1990) was an Indian politician, writer, journalist, and freedom fighter. He was a senior Indian National Congress leader from Varanasi constituency. He served as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh as ...
, joined the TMC in the presence of Mamata Banerjee.
Electoral performance
General election results
State Legislative Assembly elections
Party symbols and slogans
The party name and election symbol represents 'grassroots'– the name contains the Bengali word ''trinamool'', which literally means grassroots, and the symbol is a sapling emerging from the ground.
The symbol is known as ''Jora Ghas Phul'' (Bengali: grass and flower; two flowers with grass). The usage of "All India" in the party name represents the rejection of "elitist" Indian National Congress from which it broke apart from.
''Ma Mati Manush'' ( bn, মা মাটি মানুষ) was primarily a slogan, coined by
Mamata Banerjee
Mamata Banerjee (; born 5 January 1955) is an Indian politician who is serving as the eighth and current List of chief ministers of West Bengal, chief minister of the States and union territories of India, Indian state of West Bengal since 20 ...
. The term is literally translated as "Mother, Motherland and People". The slogan became very popular in West Bengal at the time of the 2011 assembly election. Mamata Banerjee wrote a Bengali book with the same title. A song was also recorded with the same title.
In the 2021 assembly election, the party used a song "''Khela Hobe''" across the state. The song was penned by
Debangshu Bhattacharya
The All India Trinamool Congress (English: All India Grassroots Congress; AITC), colloquially the Trinamool Congress ( TMC) is an Indian political party which is predominantly active in West Bengal. The party is led by Mamata Banerjee, the cur ...
, a party youth wing member. The "''Khela Hobe''" term has been used across India by several opposition parties and to catalyze the movements against the establishment on multiple issues throughout the nation.
Leadership
The highest decision-making body of the party is its Core Committee.
*
Mamata Banerjee
Mamata Banerjee (; born 5 January 1955) is an Indian politician who is serving as the eighth and current List of chief ministers of West Bengal, chief minister of the States and union territories of India, Indian state of West Bengal since 20 ...
— Founder,
National Chairperson, Leader of the party in the
West Bengal Legislative Assembly and Chief Minister of West Bengal.
*
Abhishek Banerjee — National General Secretary of All India Trinamool Congress.
*
Derek O'Brien — National Spokesperson and Leader of the party in the
Rajya Sabha
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.
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Sudip Bandyopadhyay
Sudip Bandyopadhyay (born 10 December 1952) is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament from Kolkata Uttar Constituency of West Bengal,India. Sudip Bandyopadhyay has been a member of the Lok Sabha for five terms, serving in the 12th, 1 ...
— Leader of the party in the
Lok Sabha
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Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar
Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar (born 23 November 1959) is an Indian physician and politician from West Bengal. She is Chairperson of Banga Janani Bahini, a women's wing of All India Trinamool Congress. She is a member of 15th, 16th and 17th Lok Sabha, re ...
— Deputy leader of the party in the Lok Sabha.
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Kalyan Banerjee —
Chief Whip
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of the party in the Lok Sabha.
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Sukhendu Shekhar Roy
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— Chief Whip of TMC in Rajya Sabha. State Unit In-Charge, Haryana.
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Firhad Hakim —
Mayor
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of
Kolkata
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and Cabinet Minister, Transport Dept., Govt. of West Bengal.
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Subrata Bakshi — President of the state unit of West Bengal. MP, Rajya Sabha.
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Mahua Moitra
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— MP, Lok Sabha, State Unit In Charge,
Goa
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Kunal Ghosh
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— General Secretary and head party spokesperson in west bengal unit. Ex-MP, Rajya Sabha.
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Sushmita Dev
Sushmita Dev (born 25 September 1972) is an Indian politician and member of Rajya Sabha from West Bengal, and belongs to the All India Trinamool Congress. Previously, she was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India fro ...
— State Unit In Charge,Assam. MP, Rajya Sabha.
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Sayoni Ghosh
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— President of West Bengal Trinamool Youth Congress.
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Mukul Sangma
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— Leader of the Opposition in
Meghalaya Legislative Assembly.
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Sayantika Banerjee
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— Secretary of West Bengal Trinamool Congress.
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Indian National Congress breakaway parties
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Nationalist Trinamool Youth Congress
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List of political parties in India
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Anti-communist parties
Anti-communism in India
Anti-communist organizations
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Centre-left parties in Asia
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