Editing Trinamool Congress (section)

{{short description|Political party in India}}
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{{Infobox Indian political party
|party_name        = All India Trinamool Congress
|logo              = File:All India Trinamool Congress logo (3).svg
|logo_size         = 220px
|abbreviation      = AITC {{small|(official)}} <br/> TMC {{small|(alternatives)}}
|colorcode         = {{party color|All India Trinamool Congress}}
|chairperson          = [[Mamata Banerjee]]<br />{{small|([[List of chief ministers of West Bengal|Chief Minister of West Bengal]])}}
|general_secretary = [[Abhishek Banerjee (politician)|Abhishek Banerjee]]
|loksabha_leader   = [[Sudip Bandyopadhyay]]
|rajyasabha_leader = [[Derek O'Brien (politician)|Derek O' Brien]]
|ppchairman        = [[Sudip Bandyopadhyay]]
|foundation        = {{Start date and age|df=yes|p=y|1998|1|1}}
|founder           = [[Mamata Banerjee]]
|split             = {{nowrap|[[Indian National Congress]]}}
|headquarters      = 30B Harish Chatterjee Street, Kolkata 700026
|publication       = ''[[Jago Bangla]]'' ([[Bengali language|Bengali]])
|youth             = [[All India Trinamool Youth Congress]]
|students          = [[Trinamool Chaatra Parishad]]
|women             = [[Trinamool Mahila Congress]]
|labour            = [[Indian National Trinamool Trade Union Congress]]
|peasants          = [[Trinamool Kisan Khet Majdur Congress]]
|ideology          = {{ubl|class=nowrap|
 |[[Bengali nationalism]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Bengali pride,sub-nationalism emerge as rallying points in West Bengal assembly polls |url=https://www.deccanherald.com/national/east-and-northeast/bengali-pride-sub-nationalism-emerge-as-rallying-points-in-west-bengal-assembly-polls-965345.html |newspaper=[[Deccan Herald]] |date=23 March 2021 |quote="This is for the first time we have made Bengali pride our main poll plank. Bengali pride is not just about Bengalis; it appeals to all sons of the soil," senior TMC leader and MP Sougata Roy told PTI."}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The Bengali card: Is Mamata trying to give TMC a new ideological core?|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/news-analysis/story/mamata-banerjee-bengal-polls-tmc-bjp-outsiders-1743885-2020-11-25|work=[[India Today]]|date=26 November 2020|quote=The TMC has decided to counter the BJP's Hindutva majoritarian politics by invoking Bengali sub-nationalism ahead of the State Assembly polls. With Mamata Banerjee setting the tone herself, TMC leaders have started attacking the BJP as a party of 'outsiders' trying to mount an assault on Bengalis.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=In Bengal, speak Bengali: Squeezed by BJP's Hindutva, Mamata Banerjee grasps at Bengali nationalism|url=https://scroll.in/article/927157/in-bengal-speak-bengali-squeezed-by-bjps-hindutva-mamata-banerjee-grasps-at-bengali-nationalism|work=[[Scroll.in]]|date=26 June 2019|quote=These crises pushed the Trinamool to declare its Bengali nativist line even more vociferously, hoping that this new narrative will break the party's free fall.}}</ref>
|[[Regionalism (politics)|Regionalism]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chirakkara |first1=Vipin Kumar |title=Rethinking regional politics: Beyond the 2021 West Bengal elections |journal=Asian Journal of Comparative Politics |date=September 2022 |volume=7 |issue=3 |pages=507–520 |doi=10.1177/20578911221099076 | issn=2057-8911 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hussain |first1=Md. Iftekhar |last2=Mir |first2=Aijaz Ahmad |title=Party Politics in West Bengal: Historical and Contemporary Dynamics |journal=Integrated Journal for Research in Arts and Humanities |date=25 May 2024 |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=50–55 |doi=10.55544/ijrah.4.3.10|doi-access=free }}</ref>
|[[Populism]]<ref>{{cite news |last=Bhaumik |first=Subir |date=13 May 2011 |title=Defeat rocks India's elected communists – Features |work=[[Al Jazeera English]] |url=http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/05/2011513143311330487.html |url-status=dead |access-date=16 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005063541/http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/05/2011513143311330487.html |archive-date=5 October 2011 |quote=The Congress alliance, led by populist Mamata Banerji, has won elections in the West Bengal state assembly.}}</ref>
|[[Welfare spending|Welfarism]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Debnath |first1=Kunal |last2=Chatterjee |first2=Souvik |title=Populism in Electoral Politics: What We Learnt from the West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021 |date=1 August 2021 |journal=Academia Letters, Article 2855 |ssrn=3905238}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Das |first1=Ritanjan |last2=Nielsen |first2=Kenneth Bo |title=Consolidating a political dynasty: Abhishek Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress, and the 2023 panchayat elections in West Bengal |journal=Contemporary South Asia |date=2 April 2024 |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=194–201 |doi=10.1080/09584935.2023.2296899}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rameez |first1=Md |title=The development of West Bengal: Contextualizing different strategies adopted by Mamata Banerjee's government |journal=International Journal of Political Science and Governance |date=1 January 2023 |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=344–347 |doi=10.33545/26646021.2023.v5.i1e.241 |url=https://www.journalofpoliticalscience.com/uploads/archives/5-1-72-529.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Debnath |first1=Kunal |chapter=Welfare Populism and Electoral Politics |title=Encyclopedia of New Populism and Responses in the 21st Century |date=2023 |pages=1–4 |doi=10.1007/978-981-16-9859-0_282-1|isbn=978-981-16-9859-0 }}</ref>
|[[Progressivism]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ellis-Petersen |first1=Hannah |last2=Rahman |first2=Shaikh Azizur |date=26 March 2021 |title='India's soul at stake': Bengalis vote in divisive election |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/26/india-soul-at-stake-west-bengalis-vote-in-divisive-election-modi-bjp |work=The Guardian |access-date=13 June 2024}}</ref>
|[[Social liberalism]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sircar |first1=Jawhar |date=28 March 2021 |title=From Liberalism To Secularism, the Battle for Bengal Has Just Begun |url=https://thewire.in/politics/west-bengal-assembly-elections-mamata-tmc-bjp-secularism |work=The Wire |access-date=13 June 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Howladar |first1=Sumit |title=1 Trinamool, Politics and Poribarton: Comprehending the Ideological Connection |journal=University of North Bengal |date=2016 |volume=12 |url=https://ir.nbu.ac.in/bitstream/123456789/3867/1/Vol.%2012%2C%20March-October%202016_07.pdf}}</ref>
|[[Secularism]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Secular ideals of Indira Gandhi is more relevant today:TMC leader Subrata Mukherjee |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/secular-ideals-of-indira-gandhi-more-relevant-today-tmc-leader-subrata-mukherjee/articleshow/45203010.cms |work=[[The Economic Times]] |agency=PTI |date=19 November 2014 |access-date=11 June 2024}}</ref>
}}
|position          = {{ubl|class=nowrap|[[Centrism|Centre]]<ref name="tmc_2">
* {{cite journal|last1=Banerjee|first1=Vasabjit|last2=Bhattacharya|first2=Srobana|last3=Jha|first3=Anand|date=3 July 2017|title=Inequality and Elections: The Nationwide Origins and State-Level Dynamics of India's Maoist Insurgency|journal=Asian Affairs: An American Review|volume=44|issue=3|pages=72–97|doi=10.1080/00927678.2017.1357347|s2cid=158695181|issn=0092-7678|doi-access=free|hdl=2263/64297|hdl-access=free}}
* {{cite journal|last=Ghosh|first=Gautam|date=2015|title=An 'infiltration' of time? Hindu Chauvinism and Bangladeshi migration in/to Kolkata, India|url=https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=289519|journal=Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology|volume=6|issue=1|pages=263–288|issn=2068-0317}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=At 24, Trinamool Congress eyes national stage |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/at-24-trinamool-congress-eyes-national-stage/articleshow/88629814.cms |work=The Economic Times |issn=0013-0389 |agency=PTI |date=1 January 2022 |access-date=10 June 2024}}</ref> |eci=}} 
|eci               =  [[List of political parties in India#State parties|State Party]]<ref>{{cite web|title=NCP, TMC and CPI lose national party status, AAP earns coveted tag Dated 10.04.2023|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/election-commission-withdraws-national-party-status-of-tmc-cpi-2358245-2023-04-10|publisher=India Today|access-date=10 April 2023|location=India|year=2013}}</ref>
|colours           = {{Color box|{{party color|All India Trinamool Congress}}}} [[Azure (color)|Green]]
|alliance          = [[National Democratic Alliance|NDA]] (1998–2006) <br/> [[United Progressive Alliance|UPA]] (2009–2012) <br />
 [[Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance|I.N.D.I.A.]] (2023–present)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/elections/lok-sabha/india/india-alliance-tmc-cong-break-up-in-bengal-paves-way-for-three-cornered-contest/articleshow/107152611.cms|title=TMC and Congress break up in Bengal in INDIA alliance|newspaper=The Economic Times |date=25 January 2024 }}</ref>
|loksabha_seats    = {{Composition bar|28|543|hex={{party color|All India Trinamool Congress}}}}
|rajyasabha_seats  = {{Composition bar|12|245|hex={{party color|All India Trinamool Congress}}}}
|state_seats_name  = [[State Legislative Assembly (India)|State Legislative Assemblies]]
|state_seats       = {{Composition bar|227|4036|hex= {{party color|All India Trinamool Congress}}}}
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|website           = {{URL|http://aitcofficial.org/}}
|symbol            = [[File:All India Trinamool Congress symbol 2021.svg|100px|center]]
|flag              = All India Trinamool Congress flag (2).svg
|slogan=''[[Joy Bangla]]'' <br/> ''[[Khela Hobe]]'' (Electoral Slogan) <br/> ''[[Ma Mati Manush]]'' (Political Slogan)}}
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The '''All India Trinamool Congress''' ({{translation|All India Grassroots Congress}}; {{small|abbr.}}  '''AITC''') is an Indian [[political party]] that is mainly influential in the [[Federated state|state]] of [[West Bengal]].<ref name="LS2014">{{cite web|date=10 April 2014|editor-last=Subramonian|editor-first=Surabhi|title=Lok Sabha Elections 2014: Know your party symbols!|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-lok-sabha-elections-2014-know-your-party-symbols-1974606 |work=[[Daily News and Analysis]]}}</ref> It was founded by [[Mamata Banerjee]] on 1 January 1998 as a [[List of Indian National Congress breakaway parties|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 [[Member of Parliament (India)|MPs]] just after the [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]] and [[Indian National Congress|INC]].

The party won a historic victory in the [[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]] by defeating the 34-year-long [[Left Front (West Bengal)|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.