Trinamool Congress

All India Trinamool Congress
All India Trinamool Congress
Abbreviation	AITC (official) ; TMC (alternatives)
Chairperson	Mamata Banerjee; (Chief Minister of West Bengal)
General Secretary	Abhishek Banerjee
Parliamentary Chairperson	Sudip Bandyopadhyay
Lok Sabha Leader	Sudip Bandyopadhyay
Rajya Sabha Leader	Derek O' Brien
Founder	Mamata Banerjee
Founded	1 January 1998
Split from	Indian National Congress
Headquarters	30B Harish Chatterjee Street, Kolkata 700026
Newspaper	Jago Bangla (Bengali)
Student wing	Trinamool Chaatra Parishad
Youth wing	All India Trinamool Youth Congress
Women's wing	Trinamool Mahila Congress
Labour wing	Indian National Trinamool Trade Union Congress
Peasant's wing	Trinamool Kisan Khet Majdur Congress
Ideology	Bengali nationalism; Liberalism; Progressivism; Secularism; Populism;
Political position	Centre to centre-left
Colours	Green
Slogan	Joy Bangla ; Khela Hobe (Electoral Slogan) ; Ma Mati Manush (Political Slogan)
ECI Status	State Party
Alliance	Currently ; Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (2023–present); Previously; National Democratic Alliance (1998–2006) ; United Progressive Alliance (2009–2012);
Seats in Lok Sabha	21 / 543
Seats in Rajya Sabha	13 / 245
Seats in State Legislative Assemblies	228 / 4,036 Indian states 222 / 294 (West Bengal) 5 / 60 (Meghalaya) 1 / 60 (Arunachal Pradesh)
Number of states and union territories in government	1 / 31
Election symbol
Party flag
Website
	aitcofficial.org
	Politics of India; Political parties; Elections;

The All India Trinamool Congress (transl. All India Grassroots Congress; abbr. AITC) 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 and MLAs, 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.

In 2021-22, the party reported a total income of ₹546 crore, with ₹528 crore or 97% derived from unknown sources, mainly Electoral Bonds This is significant when compared to previous fiscal year revenue of ₹74.41 crores which shows an increase of 633.36% in funds received by the party.

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