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class="vector-toc-link" href="#Arunachal_Pradesh"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.1</span> <span>Arunachal Pradesh</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Arunachal_Pradesh-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Assam" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Assam"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2</span> <span>Assam</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Assam-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Bihar" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bihar"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3</span> <span>Bihar</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bihar-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Goa" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Goa"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4</span> <span>Goa</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Goa-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Haryana" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Haryana"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.5</span> <span>Haryana</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Haryana-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Kerala" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Kerala"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.6</span> <span>Kerala</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Kerala-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Manipur" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Manipur"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.7</span> <span>Manipur</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Manipur-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Meghalaya" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Meghalaya"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.8</span> <span>Meghalaya</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Meghalaya-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Mizoram" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Mizoram"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.9</span> <span>Mizoram</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Mizoram-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Punjab" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Punjab"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.10</span> <span>Punjab</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Punjab-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Tripura" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Tripura"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.11</span> <span>Tripura</span> </div> </a> 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id="toc-General_election_results" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#General_election_results"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>General election results</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-General_election_results-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-State_Legislative_Assembly_elections" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#State_Legislative_Assembly_elections"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>State Legislative Assembly elections</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-State_Legislative_Assembly_elections-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Party_symbols_and_slogans" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Party_symbols_and_slogans"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Party symbols 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class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>State/union territorial president and in-charge</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-State/union_territorial_president_and_in-charge-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-List_of_chairpersons" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#List_of_chairpersons"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>List of chairpersons</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-List_of_chairpersons-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-List_of_the_national_general_secretaries" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#List_of_the_national_general_secretaries"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>List of the national general secretaries</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-List_of_the_national_general_secretaries-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Corruption_cases_and_conviction" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Corruption_cases_and_conviction"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Corruption cases and conviction</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Corruption_cases_and_conviction-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Corruption cases and conviction subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Corruption_cases_and_conviction-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-2014_Saradha_Group_financial_scandal" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2014_Saradha_Group_financial_scandal"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.1</span> <span>2014 Saradha Group financial scandal</span> </div> </a> <ul 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<span>2022 coal scam case</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2022_coal_scam_case-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2022_cattle_smuggling_case" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2022_cattle_smuggling_case"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.5</span> <span>2022 cattle smuggling case</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2022_cattle_smuggling_case-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2022_West_Bengal_School_Service_recruitment_scam" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2022_West_Bengal_School_Service_recruitment_scam"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.6</span> <span>2022 West Bengal School Service recruitment scam</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2022_West_Bengal_School_Service_recruitment_scam-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Allegations_of_extortion" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Allegations_of_extortion"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.7</span> <span>Allegations of extortion</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Allegations_of_extortion-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" 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data-language-autonym="অসমীয়া" data-language-local-name="Assamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>অসমীয়া</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%83%E0%A6%A3%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%82%E0%A6%B2_%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B8" title="তৃণমূল কংগ্রেস – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="তৃণমূল কংগ্রেস" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinamool_Congress" title="Trinamool Congress – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Trinamool Congress" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_India_Trinamool_Congress" title="All India Trinamool Congress – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="All India Trinamool Congress" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%B1%D9%87_%D8%AA%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D9%84" title="کنگره ترینامول – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="کنگره ترینامول" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_India_Trinamool_Congress" title="All India Trinamool Congress – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="All India Trinamool Congress" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A0%84%EC%9D%B8%EB%8F%84_%ED%8A%B8%EB%A6%AC%EB%82%98%EB%AC%BC_%ED%9A%8C%EC%9D%98" title="전인도 트리나물 회의 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="전인도 트리나물 회의" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AF_%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%A3%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B8" title="सर्वभारतीय तृणमूल कांग्रेस – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="सर्वभारतीय तृणमूल कांग्रेस" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_India_Trinamool_Congress" title="All India Trinamool Congress – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="All India Trinamool Congress" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_India_Trinamool_Congress" title="All India Trinamool Congress – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="All India Trinamool Congress" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%9C_%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%A1" title="טרינמול קונגרס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="טרינמול קונגרס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%85%E0%B2%96%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B2_%E0%B2%AD%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%A4_%E0%B2%A4%E0%B3%83%E0%B2%A3%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%82%E0%B2%B2_%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%97%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D" title="ಅಖಿಲ ಭಾರತ ತೃಣಮೂಲ ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಅಖಿಲ ಭಾರತ ತೃಣಮೂಲ ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mai mw-list-item"><a href="https://mai.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AF_%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%A3%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%99%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B8" title="सर्वभारतीय तृणमूल काङ्ग्रेस – Maithili" lang="mai" hreflang="mai" data-title="सर्वभारतीय तृणमूल काङ्ग्रेस" data-language-autonym="मैथिली" data-language-local-name="Maithili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मैथिली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%83%E0%B4%A3%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%82%E0%B5%BD_%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8B%E0%B5%BA%E0%B4%97%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D" title="തൃണമൂൽ കോൺഗ്രസ് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="തൃണമൂൽ കോൺഗ്രസ്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AF_%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%A3%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%81%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B8" title="अखिल भारतीय तृणमूल काँग्रेस – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="अखिल भारतीय तृणमूल काँग्रेस" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%A3%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%99%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B8" title="तृणमूल काङ्ग्रेस – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="तृणमूल काङ्ग्रेस" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%A8%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E8%8D%89%E3%81%AE%E6%A0%B9%E4%BC%9A%E8%AD%B0%E6%B4%BE" title="全インド草の根会議派 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="全インド草の根会議派" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%A4%E0%A9%8D%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%A3%E0%A8%AE%E0%A9%82%E0%A8%B2_%E0%A8%95%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%82%E0%A8%97%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%B8" title="ਤ੍ਰਿਣਮੂਲ ਕਾਂਗਰਸ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਤ੍ਰਿਣਮੂਲ ਕਾਂਗਰਸ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%88%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%85%D9%88%D9%84_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3" title="آل انڈیا ترنمول کانگریس – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="آل انڈیا ترنمول کانگریس" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pms mw-list-item"><a href="https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/TC" title="TC – Piedmontese" lang="pms" hreflang="pms" data-title="TC" data-language-autonym="Piemontèis" data-language-local-name="Piedmontese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Piemontèis</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_India_Trinamul_Congress" title="All India Trinamul Congress – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="All India Trinamul Congress" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_India_Trinamool_Congress" title="All India Trinamool Congress – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="All India Trinamool Congress" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81_%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2%D1%8B_%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81" title="Всеиндийский конгресс инициативы масс – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Всеиндийский конгресс инициативы масс" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sa mw-list-item"><a href="https://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%A3%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B7%E0%A4%83" title="सर्वभारतीयतृणमूलकांग्रेसपक्षः – Sanskrit" lang="sa" hreflang="sa" data-title="सर्वभारतीयतृणमूलकांग्रेसपक्षः" data-language-autonym="संस्कृतम्" data-language-local-name="Sanskrit" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>संस्कृतम्</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sat mw-list-item"><a href="https://sat.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B1%B5%E1%B1%B7%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%A8%E1%B1%9A%E1%B1%9B_%E1%B1%A1%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%A0%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%9B_%E1%B1%9B%E1%B1%A8%E1%B1%A4%E1%B1%B1%E1%B1%9A%E1%B1%A2%E1%B1%A9%E1%B1%9E_%E1%B1%A0%E1%B1%9A%E1%B1%9D%E1%B1%9C%E1%B1%BD%E1%B1%A8%E1%B1%AE%E1%B1%A5" title="ᱵᱷᱟᱨᱚᱛ ᱡᱟᱠᱟᱛ ᱛᱨᱤᱱᱚᱢᱩᱞ ᱠᱚᱝᱜᱽᱨᱮᱥ – Santali" lang="sat" hreflang="sat" data-title="ᱵᱷᱟᱨᱚᱛ ᱡᱟᱠᱟᱛ ᱛᱨᱤᱱᱚᱢᱩᱞ ᱠᱚᱝᱜᱽᱨᱮᱥ" data-language-autonym="ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ" data-language-local-name="Santali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B7%83%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%8A%E0%B6%AD_%E0%B6%89%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%8A%E0%B6%AF%E0%B7%93%E0%B6%BA_%E0%B6%AD%E0%B7%98%E0%B6%AB%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%96%E0%B6%BD%E0%B7%8A_%E0%B6%9A%E0%B7%9C%E0%B6%82%E0%B6%9C%E0%B7%8A%E2%80%8D%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%83%E0%B6%BA_%E0%B6%B4%E0%B6%9A%E0%B7%8A%E0%B7%82%E0%B6%BA" title="සමස්ත ඉන්දීය තෘණමූල් කොංග්‍රසය පක්ෂය – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="සමස්ත ඉන්දීය තෘණමූල් කොංග්‍රසය පක්ෂය" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>සිංහල</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinamool_Congress" title="Trinamool Congress – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Trinamool Congress" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_India_Trinamool_Congress" title="All India Trinamool Congress – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="All India Trinamool Congress" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinamoolkongressen" title="Trinamoolkongressen – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Trinamoolkongressen" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%85%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B2_%E0%AE%87%E0%AE%A8%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF_%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A3%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%99%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%81" title="அகில இந்திய திரிணாமுல் காங்கிரசு – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="அகில இந்திய திரிணாமுல் காங்கிரசு" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%83%E0%B0%A3%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%82%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D" title="తృణమూల్ కాంగ్రెస్ – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="తృణమూల్ కాంగ్రెస్" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>తెలుగు</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%A4%E0%B8%93%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B9%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%87%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%AA" title="ตฤณมูลคองเกรส – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="ตฤณมูลคองเกรส" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_India_Trinamool_Congress" title="All India Trinamool Congress – Turkish" lang="tr" 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href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Colours</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#20C646; color:black;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Azure_(color)" title="Azure (color)">Green</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Slogan</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><i><a href="/wiki/Joy_Bangla" title="Joy Bangla">Joy Bangla</a></i> <br 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title="United Progressive Alliance">UPA</a> (2009–2012) <br /> <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Developmental_Inclusive_Alliance" title="Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance">I.N.D.I.A.</a> (2023–present)<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Seats in <a href="/wiki/Lok_Sabha" title="Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">28 / 543</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #20C646; width: 5%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Seats in <a href="/wiki/Rajya_Sabha" title="Rajya Sabha">Rajya Sabha</a></th><td class="infobox-data" 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Congress</a><br />(2001-present)</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mamata_Banerjee#Early_life_and_education" title="Mamata Banerjee">Early life and education</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mamata_Banerjee#Personal_life_and_recognitions" title="Mamata Banerjee">Recognitions</a></li></ul> <hr /> <p><b>Electoral Performance</b> </p> <hr /> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#General_election_results">General elections</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1999_Indian_general_election" title="1999 Indian general election">1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_Indian_general_election" title="2004 Indian general election">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_Indian_general_election" title="2009 Indian general election">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Indian_general_election" title="2014 Indian general election">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Indian_general_election" title="2019 Indian general election">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Indian_general_election" title="2024 Indian general election">2024</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly" title="West Bengal Legislative Assembly">Assembly elections</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2011_West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election">2021</a></li></ul></li></ul> <hr /> <p><b>Early Political Movements</b> </p> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tata_Nano_Singur_controversy" title="Tata Nano Singur controversy">Singur land controversy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nandigram_violence" title="Nandigram violence">Nandigram violence</a></li></ul> <hr /> <div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><b>Tenure as Chief Minister</b></div> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Government_of_West_Bengal#Council_of_Ministers" title="Government of West Bengal">State Council of Ministers</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Banerjee_ministry" title="First Banerjee ministry">First</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Banerjee_ministry" title="Second Banerjee ministry">Second</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Banerjee_ministry" title="Third Banerjee ministry">Third</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Naxalite%E2%80%93Maoist_insurgency#Violence_in_West_Bengal" title="Naxalite–Maoist insurgency">Naxalite–Maoist insurgency in West Bengal</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gorkhaland_Territorial_Administration" title="Gorkhaland Territorial Administration">Gorkhaland Territorial Administration</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/West_Bengal_Police" title="West Bengal Police">New Police Commissionerates</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Howrah_City_Police" title="Howrah City Police">Howrah City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barrackpore_Police_Commissionerate" title="Barrackpore Police Commissionerate">Barrackpore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bidhannagar_Police_Commissionerate" class="mw-redirect" title="Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate">Bidhanagar City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandannagar_Police_Commissionerate" title="Chandannagar Police Commissionerate">Chandannagar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asansol%E2%80%93Durgapur_Police_Commissionerate" title="Asansol–Durgapur Police Commissionerate">Asansol-Durgapur</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Emblem_of_West_Bengal" title="Emblem of West Bengal">Emblem of West Bengal</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mamata_Banerjee#Wrestler's_protest" title="Mamata Banerjee">2023 Indian Wrestler's protest</a></li></ul> <hr /> <div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><b>Initiatives</b></div> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kanyashree_Prakalpa" title="Kanyashree Prakalpa">Kanyashree Prakalpa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Didi_Ke_Bolo" title="Didi Ke Bolo">Didi Ke Bolo</a></li></ul> <hr /> <div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><b>Controversies</b></div> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2013_Kamduni_gang_rape_and_murder_case" title="2013 Kamduni gang rape and murder case">2013 Kamduni gang rape and murder case</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suzette_Jordan" title="Suzette Jordan">2012 Suzette Jordan gangrape case</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Birbhum_gang_rape_case" title="2014 Birbhum gang rape case">2014 Birbhum gang rape case</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Kandhamal_gang_rape_case" title="2015 Kandhamal gang rape case">2015 Kandhamal gang rape case</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saradha_Group_financial_scandal" title="Saradha Group financial scandal">Saradha Scam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rose_Valley_financial_scandal" title="Rose Valley financial scandal">Rose Valley scandal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narada_sting_operation" title="Narada sting operation">Narada sting operation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Nandigram_Legislative_Assembly_election_result_controversy" class="mw-redirect" title="2021 Nandigram Legislative Assembly election result controversy">Nandigram controversy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Bengal_post-poll_violence" class="mw-redirect" title="2021 Bengal post-poll violence">2021 Bengal post-poll violence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_West_Bengal_School_Service_Commission_recruitment_scam" title="2022 West Bengal School Service Commission recruitment scam">SSC scandal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_West_Bengal_local_elections_violence" title="2023 West Bengal local elections violence">2023 West Bengal local elections violence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Sandeshkhali_violence" title="2024 Sandeshkhali violence">2024 Sandeshkhali violence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Kolkata_rape_and_murder_incident" class="mw-redirect" title="2024 Kolkata rape and murder incident">2024 Kolkata rape and murder incident</a></li></ul> <hr /> <div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><b>Political Slogans</b></div> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ma_Mati_Manush" title="Ma Mati Manush">Ma Mati Manush</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khela_Hobe" title="Khela Hobe">Khela Hobe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joy_Bangla#In_West_Bengal" title="Joy Bangla">Joy Bangla</a></li></ul> <hr /> <p><br /> </p><p><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_India.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Emblem_of_India.svg/34px-Emblem_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="34" height="54" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Emblem_of_India.svg/51px-Emblem_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Emblem_of_India.svg/68px-Emblem_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="585" data-file-height="933" /></a></span> <br /> <span 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title="Political party">political party</a> that is mainly influential in the <a href="/wiki/Federated_state" title="Federated state">state</a> of <a href="/wiki/West_Bengal" title="West Bengal">West Bengal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-LS2014_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LS2014-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was founded by <a href="/wiki/Mamata_Banerjee" title="Mamata Banerjee">Mamata Banerjee</a> on 1 January 1998 as a <a href="/wiki/List_of_Indian_National_Congress_breakaway_parties" title="List of Indian National Congress breakaway parties">breakaway faction from the Indian National Congress</a> and rapidly rose to prominence in the <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_West_Bengal" title="Politics of West Bengal">politics of West Bengal</a> under her leadership. Presently, it is ruling the state of <a href="/wiki/West_Bengal" title="West Bengal">West Bengal</a> beside being the third-largest party in India in terms of number of <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(India)" title="Member of Parliament (India)">MPs</a> just after the <a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a> and <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a>. </p><p>The party won a historic victory in the <a href="/wiki/2011_West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election">2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election</a> by defeating the 34-year-long <a href="/wiki/Left_Front_(West_Bengal)" title="Left Front (West Bengal)">Left Front</a> rule, world's longest democratically elected communist government. It has won a three-time majority in the <a href="/wiki/West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly" title="West Bengal Legislative Assembly">West Bengal Legislative Assembly</a> 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. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Founding">Founding</h3></div> <p>After being a member of the <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> (INC) for over 26 years, <a href="/wiki/Mamata_Banerjee" title="Mamata Banerjee">Mamata Banerjee</a> quit the INC and established the TMC in 1998. The official election symbol of the TMC is <i>Jora Ghas Phul</i> (two flowers with grass). In the 1998 Lok Sabha polls, TMC won seven seats. In the next Lok Sabha election that was held in 1999, Trinamool Congress won eight seats with BJP, thus increasing its tally by one.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2000, TMC won the Kolkata Municipal Corporation Elections.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The party initially joined the <a href="/wiki/National_Democratic_Alliance_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="National Democratic Alliance (India)">National Democratic Alliance</a> (NDA), as part of the <a href="/wiki/Vajpayee_government" class="mw-redirect" title="Vajpayee government">Vajpayee government</a>, and was initially quite successful, winning seven seats in its <a href="/wiki/1998_Indian_general_election" title="1998 Indian general election">first election in 1998</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-IndiaToday_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IndiaToday-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 2001 Vidhan Sabha elections, the TMC won 60 seats in alliance with the INC, becoming the principal opposition party.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They suffered big losses in the <a href="/wiki/2004_Indian_general_election" title="2004 Indian general election">2004 Lok Sabha elections</a><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/2006_West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election">2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-IndiaToday_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IndiaToday-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and subsequently left the NDA. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nandigram_movement">Nandigram movement</h3></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Nandigram_violence" title="Nandigram violence">Nandigram violence</a></div> <p>In December 2006, the people of <a href="/wiki/Nandigram" title="Nandigram">Nandigram</a> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> People started movement against this land acquisition and the TMC helped lead the movement. The <a href="/wiki/Bhumi_Uchhed_Pratirodh_Committee" title="Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee">Bhumi Uchchhed Pratirodh Committee</a> ('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 <a href="/wiki/Central_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Central Bureau of Investigation">Central Bureau of Investigation</a> in its report) that armed <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India_(Marxist)" title="Communist Party of India (Marxist)">Communist Party of India (Marxist)</a> cadres, along with police, fired on protesters in Nandigram<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many intellectuals protested in the streets and this incident gave birth to a new movement. <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Unity_Centre_of_India_(Communist)" title="Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)">Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)</a> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-aljaz_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aljaz-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post-Nandigram/Singur_elections"><span id="Post-Nandigram.2FSingur_elections"></span>Post-Nandigram/Singur elections</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Singur_Tata_Nano_controversy" class="mw-redirect" title="Singur Tata Nano controversy">Singur Tata Nano controversy</a></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/2009_Indian_general_election" title="2009 Indian general election">2009 Lok Sabha election</a>, TMC won 19 seats in <a href="/wiki/West_Bengal" title="West Bengal">West Bengal</a>, in alliance with the <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Congress</a>. They subsequently became a part of <a href="/wiki/Manmohan_Singh" title="Manmohan Singh">Manmohan Singh</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Second_Manmohan_Singh_ministry" title="Second Manmohan Singh ministry">government</a>, with Banerjee serving as <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Railways_(India)" title="Minister of Railways (India)">Minister of Railways</a>. </p><p>In the 2010 Kolkata municipal election, the party won 97 out of 141 seats. It also won a majority of other municipalities.<sup id="cite_ref-civicpolls2010_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-civicpolls2010-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="In_government">In government</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mamata_Banerjee_-_Kolkata_2011-12-08_7542_Cropped.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Mamata_Banerjee_-_Kolkata_2011-12-08_7542_Cropped.JPG/220px-Mamata_Banerjee_-_Kolkata_2011-12-08_7542_Cropped.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="292" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Mamata_Banerjee_-_Kolkata_2011-12-08_7542_Cropped.JPG/330px-Mamata_Banerjee_-_Kolkata_2011-12-08_7542_Cropped.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Mamata_Banerjee_-_Kolkata_2011-12-08_7542_Cropped.JPG/440px-Mamata_Banerjee_-_Kolkata_2011-12-08_7542_Cropped.JPG 2x" data-file-width="563" data-file-height="747" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Mamata_Banerjee" title="Mamata Banerjee">Mamata Banerjee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chief_Minister_of_West_Bengal" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Minister of West Bengal">Chief Minister of West Bengal</a> and chairperson of All India Trinamool Congress</figcaption></figure> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/2011_West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election">2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election</a>, the TMC-led alliance that included the <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> and <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Unity_Centre_of_India_(Communist)" title="Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)">SUCI(C)</a> won 227 seats in the 294-seat legislature, defeating the incumbent <a href="/wiki/Left_Front_(West_Bengal)" title="Left Front (West Bengal)">Left Front</a> government which had been in power for 34 years.<sup id="cite_ref-forbes_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-forbes-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> TMC alone won 184 seats, enabling it to govern without an alliance. Subsequently, it won a by-election in <a href="/wiki/Basirhat" title="Basirhat">Basirhat</a> and two Congress MLAs switched to the TMC, giving it a total of 187 seats. Banerjee, an <a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_Lok_Sabha" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of the Lok Sabha">MP</a> at the time, had not contested the election and had to transfer to the safe seat of <a href="/wiki/Bhabanipur,_West_Bengal_Assembly_constituency" title="Bhabanipur, West Bengal Assembly constituency">Bhabanipur</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-vidhansabha2011by_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vidhansabha2011by-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 18 September 2012, Banerjee announced her decision to withdraw support to the <a href="/wiki/United_Progressive_Alliance" title="United Progressive Alliance">UPA</a> after the TMC's demands to undo government-instituted changes including <a href="/wiki/Foreign_direct_investment" title="Foreign direct investment">FDI</a> in retail, increase in the price of diesel and limiting the number of subsidised cooking gas cylinders for households, were not met.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/2014_Indian_general_election" title="2014 Indian general election">2014 Lok Sabha elections</a> 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 (<a href="/wiki/West_Bengal" title="West Bengal">West Bengal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manipur" title="Manipur">Manipur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tripura" title="Tripura">Tripura</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jharkhand" title="Jharkhand">Jharkhand</a> and <a href="/wiki/Assam" title="Assam">Assam</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 2 September 2016, the <a href="/wiki/Election_Commission_of_India" title="Election Commission of India">Election Commission</a> recognised TMC as a national political party.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The party was reelected in the <a href="/wiki/2016_West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election">2016 election</a> to a supermajority government, and Banerjee continued as chief minister.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The party won the most seats in West Bengal in the <a href="/wiki/2019_Indian_general_election" title="2019 Indian general election">2019 Indian general election</a>, but suffered significant losses to the <a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">Bharatiya Janata Party</a>, which for the first time established itself as a major force in the state.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the election, the party's status came under revision by the <a href="/wiki/Election_Commission_of_India" title="Election Commission of India">Election Commission of India</a>, due to a loss in presence in most states outside West Bengal.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Banerjee's government was reelected again in the <a href="/wiki/2021_West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election">2021 state election</a> by an unexpectedly large margin over the BJP. Prior to the election, several high-profile TMC members such as <a href="/wiki/Mukul_Roy" title="Mukul Roy">Mukul Roy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Suvendu_Adhikari" title="Suvendu Adhikari">Suvendu Adhikari</a> had defected to the BJP. Despite the large winning margin, Banerjee was defeated by Adhikari in the <a href="/wiki/Nandigram_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nandigram (Vidhan Sabha constituency)">Nandigram seat</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where she had transferred to fight Adhikari head-on.<sup id="cite_ref-theguardian_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-theguardian-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Presence_in_other_states">Presence in other states</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Arunachal_Pradesh">Arunachal Pradesh</h3></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/2009_Arunachal_Pradesh_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2009 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election">2009 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election</a>, Trinamool Congress won five seats and got 15.04% of the total votes. </p><p>In 2020, an independent MLA <a href="/wiki/Chakat_Aboh" title="Chakat Aboh">Chakat Aboh</a> joined the TMC. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Assam">Assam</h3></div> <p>In the 2001 Assam Legislative Assembly election, <a href="/wiki/Jamal_Uddin_Ahmed_(MLA)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jamal Uddin Ahmed (MLA)">Jamal Uddin Ahmed</a> won <a href="/wiki/Badarpur_(Assam_Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Badarpur (Assam Vidhan Sabha constituency)">Badarpur constituency</a>. He was a Trinamool Congress candidate.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since then, the party has not emphasised on any other organisation.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Cleanup" title="Wikipedia:Cleanup"><span title="This sentence is incomprehensible. Please help to fix this. (November 2021)">incomprehensible</span></a></i>]</sup> Later in 2018, the work of the organisation started again under the leadership of M. Shanti Kumar Singha. In the 2021 assembly elections, it was decided to field candidates from 14 constituencies on behalf of the party. </p><p>All-India president of <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Congress</a>'s women's wing and its national spokesperson and former <a href="/wiki/Silchar_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Silchar (Lok Sabha constituency)">Silchar</a> MP <a href="/wiki/Sushmita_Dev" title="Sushmita Dev">Sushmita Dev</a> joined the Trinamool Congress in August 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She is now an MP of Rajya Sabha. </p><p>Later in 2022, former <a href="/wiki/Rajya_Sabha" title="Rajya Sabha">Rajya Sabha</a> MP from <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Congress</a>, Mr <a href="/wiki/Ripun_Bora" title="Ripun Bora">Ripun Bora</a> joined AITC and was named the President of its Assam Unit. Leading to the joining many prominent local leaders joined the party strengthening its grassroot workers level. The Trinamool Congress released a list of candidates for four Lok Sabha seats in Assam in 2024. TMC's list of candidates includes Gauri Shankar Sarania from Kokrajhar (ST), Abdul Kalam Azad from Barpeta seat, Ghana Kanta Chutia from Lakhimpur seat, and <a href="/wiki/Radheshyam_Biswas" title="Radheshyam Biswas">Radheshyam Biswas</a> from Silchar (SC).<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bihar">Bihar</h3></div> <p>On 23 November 2021 <a href="/wiki/Kirti_Azad" title="Kirti Azad">Kirti Azad</a>, a three-time <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament,_Lok_Sabha" title="Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha">MP</a> from <a href="/wiki/Darbhanga_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Darbhanga (Lok Sabha constituency)">Darbhanga</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pavan_Varma" title="Pavan Varma">Pavan Varma</a>, a former adviser to <a href="/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_of_Bihar" title="List of chief ministers of Bihar">Bihar CM</a> <a href="/wiki/Nitish_Kumar" title="Nitish Kumar">Nitish Kumar</a>, joined TMC.<sup id="cite_ref-TOI_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TOI-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Frontline_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Frontline-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Free_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Free-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Goa">Goa</h3></div> <p>With the <a href="/wiki/2022_Goa_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2022 Goa Legislative Assembly election">2022 Goa Legislative Assembly election</a> approaching, the work of organising the party started from September 2021. The work began with the participation of seven-time Goa Chief Minister <a href="/wiki/Luizinho_Faleiro" title="Luizinho Faleiro">Luizinho Faleiro</a>. Since then, the party has increased its membership in Goa. Former footballer <a href="/wiki/Denzil_Franco" title="Denzil Franco">Denzil Franco</a> and former tennis player <a href="/wiki/Leander_Paes" title="Leander Paes">Leander Paes</a> were among those who joined the party. On 13 November 2021, <a href="/wiki/Mahua_Moitra" title="Mahua Moitra">Mahua Moitra</a> was appointed as the in-charge of the party in Goa to prepare it to contest in the Assembly election.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> MLA <a href="/wiki/Churchill_Alemao" title="Churchill Alemao">Churchill Alemao</a> joined TMC in the same year.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/2022_Goa_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2022 Goa Legislative Assembly election">2022 Goa Legislative Assembly Election</a>, it got 5.2% votes. Later its party President and many leaders left the party. Samil Volavaiker was appointed the President in 2023. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Haryana">Haryana</h3></div> <p>On 23 November 2021 <a href="/wiki/Ashok_Tanwar" title="Ashok Tanwar">Ashok Tanwar</a>, former president of <a href="/wiki/Haryana_Pradesh_Congress_Committee" title="Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee">Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee</a>, joined TMC.<sup id="cite_ref-TOI_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TOI-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Frontline_50-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Frontline-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Free_51-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Free-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Sukhendu_Shekhar_Roy" class="mw-redirect" title="Sukhendu Shekhar Roy">Sukhendu Shekhar Roy</a> was appointed as in-charge of the party's <a href="/wiki/Haryana" title="Haryana">Haryana</a> unit on 25 November.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kerala">Kerala</h3></div> <p>Kerala Pradesh Trinamool Congress was launched in 2009. In 2014, its candidates contested five seats under the party symbol in the parliamentary election. Leaders like Mukul Roy, Derek O'Brien, Mahua Moitra and Nadimul Haque visited Kerala and gave directions for further development in the party's activities. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Trinamool Congress candidates contested from five parliamentary constituencies. The 2014 Lok Sabha elections made the Trinamool Congress presence known in Kerala, although it failed to garner significant votes. In the 2016 state election, TMC contested in 70 assembly constituencies but due to technical errors, the party symbol was not accepted. District Committees in all 14 districts of Kerala. Constituency Committees in 95 constituencies out of 140 constituencies. Kerala Pradesh Trinamool Congress also has a 59-member state working committee. Kerala Pradesh trinamool Congress State President Dr. Harish Palathingal.The working president is Shamsu Payaningal. The party is active in all political spheres of the state of Kerala. The Trinamool Congress is aligned with the India Front but is not part of the UDF or the LDF in the state.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Manipur">Manipur</h3></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/2012_Manipur_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2012 Manipur Legislative Assembly election">2012 assembly elections</a> of <a href="/wiki/Manipur" title="Manipur">Manipur</a>, the party won eight seats and got 10% of the total votes. It became the only opposition party in the <a href="/wiki/Manipur_Legislative_Assembly" title="Manipur Legislative Assembly">Manipur Legislative Assembly</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 2017 assembly elections, the party won only one seat (from <a href="/wiki/Thanga_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thanga (Vidhan Sabha constituency)">Thanga</a>) and received 5.4% of the total votes cast in the elections.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its lone member of the Manipur Legislative Assembly, Tongbram Robindro Singh, switched to the <a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a> government in <a href="/wiki/Manipur" title="Manipur">Manipur</a> in 2017. As of 18 June 2020, he has withdrawn support from the BJP, following the disqualification of seven of its members, to support the <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Meghalaya">Meghalaya</h3></div> <p>TMC candidate Purno Agitok Sangma won the <a href="/wiki/Tura_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tura (Lok Sabha constituency)">Tura constituency</a> by a huge margin in the 2004 Lok Sabha election. </p><p>The party's <a href="/wiki/Meghalaya" title="Meghalaya">Meghalaya</a> unit was launched in 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 24 November 2021, former <a href="/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_of_Meghalaya" title="List of chief ministers of Meghalaya">Chief Minister of Meghalaya</a> <a href="/wiki/Mukul_Sangma" title="Mukul Sangma">Mukul Sangma</a> along with other 11 MLAs of INC joined TMC which made TMC the largest opposition party in <a href="/wiki/Meghalaya_Legislative_Assembly" title="Meghalaya Legislative Assembly">Meghalaya Legislative Assembly</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 29 November, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Pyngrope" title="Charles Pyngrope">Charles Pyngrope</a> was appointed as the president of AITC Meghalaya unit.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2022, one defected MLA who has earlier switched from INC quit the party and joined BJP.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/2023_Meghalaya_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2023 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election">2023 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election</a>, the Trinamool Congress led by Mukul Sangma contested 56 of the 60 seats and won five seats and received 13.32% of the votes; as such, it became a State Party. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mizoram">Mizoram</h3></div> <p>In 2023, an independent MLA Dr. <a href="/wiki/K_Beichhua" class="mw-redirect" title="K Beichhua">K Beichhua</a> joined the TMC. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Punjab">Punjab</h3></div> <p>Shortly before the Assembly elections in 2017, the party started working on the Punjab organisation 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.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> From 2019, the party started a new committee under the leadership of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Manjit_Singh_(Trinamool_Congress)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Manjit Singh (Trinamool Congress) (page does not exist)">Manjit Singh</a>. Since then, the party has had a continuous presence in Punjab. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tripura">Tripura</h3></div> <p>Under the leadership of <a href="/wiki/Sudip_Roy_Barman" title="Sudip Roy Barman">Sudip Roy Barman</a>, former <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_opposition" class="mw-redirect" title="Leader of opposition">leader of opposition</a> and then <a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_Legislative_Assembly_(India)" title="Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)">MLA</a> of <a href="/wiki/Tripura" title="Tripura">Tripura</a>, all six MLAs of the <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Tripura" title="Government of Tripura">Government in Tripura</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view"><span title="This statement is possibly biased. (November 2021)">neutrality</span></a> is <a href="/wiki/Talk:Trinamool_Congress" title="Talk:Trinamool Congress">disputed</a></i>]</sup> Later in the presence of <a href="/wiki/Himanta_Biswa_Sarma" title="Himanta Biswa Sarma">Himanta Biswa Sarma</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dharmendra_Pradhan" title="Dharmendra Pradhan">Dharmendra Pradhan</a>, 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 <a href="/wiki/2017_Indian_presidential_election" title="2017 Indian presidential election">2017 Indian presidential election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>TMC won one seat in Ambassa Municipal council in the <a href="/wiki/2021_Tripura_local_elections" title="2021 Tripura local elections">2021 Tripura civic polls</a> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Uttar_Pradesh">Uttar Pradesh</h3></div> <p>The party's state unit in <a href="/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh" title="Uttar Pradesh">Uttar Pradesh</a> was set up in 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-dtnext_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dtnext-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2012, <a href="/wiki/Shyam_Sunder_Sharma" title="Shyam Sunder Sharma">Shyam Sunder Sharma</a> contested the by-poll to <a href="/wiki/Mant_(Assembly_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mant (Assembly constituency)">Mant constituency</a> and won on an <b>AITC</b> ticket.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He later defected to <a href="/wiki/Bahujan_Samaj_Party" title="Bahujan Samaj Party">BSP</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Neeraj Rai is the current president of <b>AITC</b> 's state unit in Uttar Pradesh.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-dtnext_74-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dtnext-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 2021, two senior Congress leaders of <a href="/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh" title="Uttar Pradesh">Uttar Pradesh</a> – Rajeshpati Tripathi and Laliteshpati Tripathi, who are the grandson and the great-grandson of <a href="/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_of_Uttar_Pradesh" title="List of chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh">former UP Chief Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Kamalapati_Tripathi" title="Kamalapati Tripathi">Kamalapati Tripathi</a>, joined the <b>AITC</b> in the presence of Mamata Banerjee.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Electoral_performance">Electoral performance</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_election_results">General election results</h3></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th style="background-color:#20C646; color:white">Year </th> <th style="background-color:#20C646; color:white">Lok Sabha </th> <th style="background-color:#20C646; color:white">Party leader </th> <th style="background-color:#20C646; color:white">Seats<br />contested </th> <th style="background-color:#20C646; color:white">Seats won </th> <th style="background-color:#20C646; color:white">Seats +/- </th> <th style="background-color:#20C646; color:white">Vote %<br />(in whole country) </th> <th style="background-color:#20C646; color:white">Vote swing </th> <th style="background-color:#20C646; color:white">Ref. </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_Indian_general_election" title="1998 Indian general election">1998</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/12th_Lok_Sabha" title="12th Lok Sabha">12th Lok Sabha</a> </td> <td rowspan="7"><a href="/wiki/Mamata_Banerjee" title="Mamata Banerjee">Mamata Banerjee</a> </td> <td>29 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">7 / 543</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #20C646; width: 1%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 7 </td> <td>2.42% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> new </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-ECI1998_89-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ECI1998-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td><a href="/wiki/1999_Indian_general_election" title="1999 Indian general election">1999</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/13th_Lok_Sabha" title="13th Lok Sabha">13th Lok Sabha</a> </td> <td>29 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">8 / 543</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #20C646; width: 1%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td> <td>2.57% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 0.15% </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-ECI1999_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ECI1999-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td><a href="/wiki/2004_Indian_general_election" title="2004 Indian general election">2004</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/14th_Lok_Sabha" title="14th Lok Sabha">14th Lok Sabha</a> </td> <td>33 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">2 / 543</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #20C646; width: 0.4%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 6 </td> <td>2.07% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 0.5% </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-ECI2004_91-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ECI2004-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td><a href="/wiki/2009_Indian_general_election" title="2009 Indian general election">2009</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/15th_Lok_Sabha" title="15th Lok Sabha">15th Lok Sabha</a> </td> <td>26 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">19 / 543</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #20C646; width: 3%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 17 </td> <td>3.20% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1.15% </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-ECI2009_92-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ECI2009-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td><a href="/wiki/2014_Indian_general_election" title="2014 Indian general election">2014</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/16th_Lok_Sabha" title="16th Lok Sabha">16th Lok Sabha</a> </td> <td>131 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">34 / 543</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #20C646; width: 6%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 15 </td> <td>3.84% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 0.64% </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-ECI2014_93-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ECI2014-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td><a href="/wiki/2019_Indian_general_election" title="2019 Indian general election">2019</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/17th_Lok_Sabha" title="17th Lok Sabha">17th Lok Sabha</a> </td> <td>62 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">22 / 543</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #20C646; width: 4%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 12 </td> <td>4.11% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 0.27% </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-ECI2019_94-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ECI2019-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td><a href="/wiki/2024_Indian_general_election" title="2024 Indian general election">2024</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/18th_Lok_Sabha" title="18th Lok Sabha">18th Lok Sabha</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">29 / 543</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #20C646; width: 5%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 7 </td> <td>4.37% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 0.26% </td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="State_Legislative_Assembly_elections">State Legislative Assembly elections</h3></div> <div class="notheme barbox tright" style="overflow-x: auto;"> <div style="border:1px solid silver; font-size:88%; padding:0.4em; width:250px; background: white; color: black;"> <table style="text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr style="background:#20C646"><th style="text-align:center;" colspan="5"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239334494"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:white">Vote share in consecutive West Bengal Assembly elections</span></th></tr> <tr style="font-size:88%; height:4px;"> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; text-align:left;"></td> <td style="width:; text-align:left;"></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; width:1em; text-align:right;"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">2021</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#20C646; width:48.02%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">48.02%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">2016</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#20C646; width:44.91%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">44.91%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">2011</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#20C646; width:38.93%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">38.93%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">2006</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#20C646; width:26.64%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">26.64%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">2001</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#20C646; width:30.66%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">30.66%</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption><b>Legislative Assembly elections</b><sup id="cite_ref-WB_Results_95-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WB_Results-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th style="background-color:#20C646; color:white">Election Year </th> <th style="background-color:#20C646; color:white">Party leader </th> <th style="background-color:#20C646; color:white">Seats<br />contested </th> <th style="background-color:#20C646; color:white">Seats won </th> <th style="background-color:#20C646; color:white">Change in seats </th> <th style="background-color:#20C646; color:white">Percentage<br />of votes </th> <th style="background-color:#20C646; color:white">Vote swing </th> <th style="background-color:#20C646; color:white">Popular vote </th> <th style="background-color:#20C646; color:white">Result </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <th colspan="9"><a href="/wiki/Arunachal_Pradesh_Legislative_Assembly" title="Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly">Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly</a> </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td><a href="/wiki/2009_Arunachal_Pradesh_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2009 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election">2009</a> </td> <td> </td> <td>26 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">5 / 60</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #20C646; width: 8%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 5 </td> <td>15.04% </td> <td>– </td> <td>86,406 </td> <td style="background:#FA07A;">Others </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <th colspan="9"><a href="/wiki/Assam_Legislative_Assembly" title="Assam Legislative Assembly">Assam Legislative Assembly</a> </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td><a href="/wiki/2001_Assam_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2001 Assam Legislative Assembly election">2001</a><sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td> </td> <td>23 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">1 / 126</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #20C646; width: 0.8%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td> <td>0.55% </td> <td>– </td> <td>58,361 </td> <td style="background:#FA07A;">Others </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td><a href="/wiki/2011_Assam_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2011 Assam Legislative Assembly election">2011</a> </td> <td> </td> <td>126 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">1 / 126</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #20C646; width: 0.8%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td>2.05% </td> <td>– </td> <td>283,683 </td> <td style="background:#FA07A;">Others </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <th colspan="9"><a href="/wiki/Goa_Legislative_Assembly" title="Goa Legislative Assembly">Goa Legislative Assembly</a> </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td><a href="/wiki/2022_Goa_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2022 Goa Legislative Assembly election">2022</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Luizinho_Faleiro" title="Luizinho Faleiro">Luizinho Faleiro</a> </td> <td>29 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">0 / 40</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #20C646; width: 0%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td> </td> <td>5.2% </td> <td>– </td> <td>49,480 </td> <td>Others </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="9"><a href="/wiki/Manipur_Legislative_Assembly" title="Manipur Legislative Assembly">Manipur Legislative Assembly</a> </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td><a href="/wiki/2012_Manipur_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2012 Manipur Legislative Assembly election">2012</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Maibam_Kunjo" title="Maibam Kunjo">Maibam Kunjo</a> </td> <td>60 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">7 / 60</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #20C646; width: 12%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 7 </td> <td>17% </td> <td>– </td> <td>237,517 </td> <td style="background:#FFA07A;">Opposition </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td><a href="/wiki/2017_Manipur_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2017 Manipur Legislative Assembly election">2017</a> </td> <td> </td> <td>60 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">1 / 60</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #20C646; width: 2%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 6 </td> <td>1.4% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>15.6% </td> <td>23,304 </td> <td style="background:#FA07A;">Others </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="9"><a href="/wiki/Meghalaya_Legislative_Assembly" title="Meghalaya Legislative Assembly">Meghalaya Legislative Assembly</a> </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_Meghalaya_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2023 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election">2023</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mukul_Sangma" title="Mukul Sangma">Mukul Sangma</a> </td> <td>56 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">5 / 60</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #20C646; width: 8%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 5 </td> <td>13.78% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>13.38% </td> <td>255,742 </td> <td style="background:#FFA07A;">Opposition </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <th colspan="9"><a href="/wiki/Tripura_Legislative_Assembly" title="Tripura Legislative Assembly">Tripura Legislative Assembly</a> </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td><a href="/wiki/2018_Tripura_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2018 Tripura Legislative Assembly election">2018</a> </td> <td> </td> <td>24 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">0 / 60</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #20C646; width: 0%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td> </td> <td>0.3% </td> <td>– </td> <td>6,989 </td> <td>Others </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_Tripura_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2023 Tripura Legislative Assembly election">2023</a> </td> <td>Pijush Kanti Biswas </td> <td>28 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">0 / 60</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #20C646; width: 0%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td> </td> <td>0.88% </td> <td>– </td> <td>22,316 </td> <td>Others </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <th colspan="9"><a href="/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh_Legislative_Assembly" title="Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly">Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly</a> </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td><a href="/wiki/2012_Uttar_Pradesh_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election">2012</a> (<a href="/wiki/By-election" title="By-election">By-election</a>) </td> <td> </td> <td>1 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">1 / 403</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #20C646; width: 0.2%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td> <td> </td> <td>– </td> <td> </td> <td style="background:#FA07A;">Others </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <th colspan="9"><a href="/wiki/West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly" title="West Bengal Legislative Assembly">West Bengal Legislative Assembly</a> </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td><a href="/wiki/2001_West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election">2001</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mamata_Banerjee" title="Mamata Banerjee">Mamata Banerjee</a> </td> <td>226 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">60 / 294</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #20C646; width: 20%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 60 </td> <td>30.66% </td> <td>– </td> <td>11,229,396 </td> <td style="background:#FFA07A;">Opposition </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td><a href="/wiki/2006_West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election">2006</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mamata_Banerjee" title="Mamata Banerjee">Mamata Banerjee</a> </td> <td>257 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">30 / 294</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #20C646; width: 10%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 30 </td> <td>26.64% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 4.02% </td> <td>10,512,153 </td> <td style="background:#FFA07A;">Opposition </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td><a href="/wiki/2011_West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election">2011</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mamata_Banerjee" title="Mamata Banerjee">Mamata Banerjee</a> </td> <td>226 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">184 / 294</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #20C646; width: 63%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 154 </td> <td>38.93% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 12.29% </td> <td>18,547,678 </td> <td style="background:#98FB98;">Government </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td><a href="/wiki/2016_West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election">2016</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mamata_Banerjee" title="Mamata Banerjee">Mamata Banerjee</a> </td> <td>293 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">211 / 294</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #20C646; width: 72%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 27 </td> <td>44.91% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 5.98% </td> <td>24,564,523 </td> <td style="background:#98FB98;">Government </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td><a href="/wiki/2021_West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election">2021</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mamata_Banerjee" title="Mamata Banerjee">Mamata Banerjee</a> </td> <td>290 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">215 / 294</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #20C646; width: 73%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 4 </td> <td>48.02% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 3.11% </td> <td>28,968,281 </td> <td style="background:#98FB98;">Government </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><big><b>Presidential election results</b></big> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Election </th> <th rowspan="2">Candidate </th> <th colspan="2" scope="col">First round </th> <th colspan="2">Second round </th> <th rowspan="2">Result </th></tr> <tr> <th>Votes </th> <th>% </th> <th>Votes </th> <th>% </th></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2022_Indian_presidential_election" title="2022 Indian presidential election">2022</a> </th> <td align="left"><a href="/wiki/Yashwant_Sinha" title="Yashwant Sinha">Yashwant Sinha</a> </td> <td>380,177 </td> <td>35.97 </td> <td colspan="2" data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Lost <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Party_symbols_and_slogans">Party symbols and slogans</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Ma_Mati_Manush" title="Ma Mati Manush">Ma Mati Manush</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joy_Bangla" title="Joy Bangla">Joy Bangla</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Khela_Hobe" title="Khela Hobe">Khela Hobe</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:A_party_office_of_TMC_in_Howrah.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/A_party_office_of_TMC_in_Howrah.jpg/150px-A_party_office_of_TMC_in_Howrah.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/A_party_office_of_TMC_in_Howrah.jpg/225px-A_party_office_of_TMC_in_Howrah.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/A_party_office_of_TMC_in_Howrah.jpg/300px-A_party_office_of_TMC_in_Howrah.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3120" data-file-height="4160" /></a><figcaption>A party office of the Trinamool Congress at Jagadishpur Hat, <a href="/wiki/Howrah" title="Howrah">Howrah</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The party name and election symbol represents 'grassroots'– the name contains the Bengali word <i>trinamool</i>, which literally means grassroots, and the symbol is a sapling emerging from the ground.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_97-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The symbol is known as <i>Jora Ghas Phul</i> (Bengali: grass and flower; two flowers with grass).<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The usage of "All India" in the party name represents the rejection of "elitist" Indian National Congress from which it broke apart from.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_97-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Ma Mati Manush</i> (<a href="/wiki/Bengali_language" title="Bengali language">Bengali</a>: <span lang="bn">মা মাটি মানুষ</span>) was primarily a slogan, coined by <a href="/wiki/Mamata_Banerjee" title="Mamata Banerjee">Mamata Banerjee</a>. 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.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A song was also recorded with the same title.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The slogan Joy Bangla is also officially used by <a href="/wiki/Mamata_Banerjee" title="Mamata Banerjee">Mamata Banerjee</a> and by her party Trinamool Congress as part of attempt to create a territorial and ethnolinguistic identity for <a href="/wiki/Bengalis" title="Bengalis">Bengalis</a> in India.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is used in particular, as a closing remark for political speeches.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 2021 assembly election, the party used a song "<i>Khela Hobe</i>" across the state. The song was penned by Debangshu Bhattacharya, a party youth wing member. The "<i>Khela Hobe</i>" term has been used across India by several opposition parties and to catalyse the movements against the establishment on multiple issues throughout the nation.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_Union_Ministers">List of Union Ministers</h2></div> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2" style="background-color:#2EDF1C;color:white">No. </th> <th rowspan="2" style="background-color:#2EDF1C;color:white">Portrait </th> <th rowspan="2" style="background-color:#2EDF1C;color:white">Portfolio </th> <th rowspan="2" style="background-color:#2EDF1C;color:white">Name<br /><span style="font-size:85%;">(Birth–Death)</span> </th> <th colspan="3" style="background-color:#2EDF1C;color:white">Term in office </th> <th rowspan="2" style="background-color:#2EDF1C;color:white">Constituency<br /><span style="font-size:85%;">(House)</span> </th> <th rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="background-color:#2EDF1C;color:white"><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_India" title="Prime Minister of India"><span style="color:white">Prime Minister</span></a> </th></tr> <tr> <th style="background-color:#2EDF1C;color:white">Assumed office </th> <th style="background-color:#2EDF1C;color:white">Left office </th> <th style="background-color:#2EDF1C;color:white">Time in office </th></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="4">1 </th> <td rowspan="4"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Official_portrait_of_Mamata_Banerjee.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Official_portrait_of_Mamata_Banerjee.jpg/100px-Official_portrait_of_Mamata_Banerjee.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="96" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Official_portrait_of_Mamata_Banerjee.jpg/150px-Official_portrait_of_Mamata_Banerjee.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Official_portrait_of_Mamata_Banerjee.jpg/200px-Official_portrait_of_Mamata_Banerjee.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2392" data-file-height="2290" /></a></span> </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Railways_(India)" title="Minister of Railways (India)">Minister of Railways</a></b> </td> <td rowspan="4"><b><a href="/wiki/Mamata_Banerjee" title="Mamata Banerjee">Mamata Banerjee</a></b><br /><small>(born 1955)</small> </td> <td>13 October 1999 </td> <td>16 March 2001 </td> <th><b><span data-sort-value="7002520000000000000♠"></span>1 year, 154 days</b> </th> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Kolkata_Dakshin_Lok_Sabha_constituency" title="Kolkata Dakshin Lok Sabha constituency">Calcutta South</a><br /><small>(<a href="/wiki/Lok_Sabha" title="Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha</a>)</small> </td> <td rowspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Atal_Bihari_Vajpayee" title="Atal Bihari Vajpayee">Atal Bihari Vajpayee</a> </td> <td rowspan="5" style="background-color:#FF9933; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Third_Vajpayee_ministry" title="Third Vajpayee ministry">Minister without portfolio</a></b> </td> <td>8 September 2003 </td> <td>9 January 2004 </td> <th><b><span data-sort-value="7002123000000000000♠"></span>123 days</b> </th></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Coal" title="Ministry of Coal">Minister of Coal</a></b> </td> <td rowspan="2">9 January 2004 </td> <td rowspan="2">22 May 2004 </td> <th rowspan="2"><b><span data-sort-value="7002134000000000000♠"></span>134 days</b> </th></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Mines_(India)" title="Ministry of Mines (India)">Minister of Mines</a></b> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2 </th> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:No_image_available.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/No_image_available.svg/100px-No_image_available.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/No_image_available.svg/150px-No_image_available.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/No_image_available.svg/200px-No_image_available.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></a></span> </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_External_Affairs_(India)" title="Ministry of External Affairs (India)">Minister of External Affairs</a></b><br /><b>(<abbr title="Minister of State">MoS</abbr>)</b> </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Ajit_Kumar_Panja" title="Ajit Kumar Panja">Ajit Kumar Panja</a></b><br /><small>(born 1955)</small> </td> <td>13 October 1999 </td> <td>16 March 2001 </td> <th><b><span data-sort-value="7002520000000000000♠"></span>1 year, 154 days</b> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Calcutta_North_East_Lok_Sabha_constituency" title="Calcutta North East Lok Sabha constituency">Calcutta North East</a><br /><small>(<a href="/wiki/Lok_Sabha" title="Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha</a>)</small> </td></tr> <tr> <th>3 </th> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Official_portrait_of_Mamata_Banerjee.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Official_portrait_of_Mamata_Banerjee.jpg/100px-Official_portrait_of_Mamata_Banerjee.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="96" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Official_portrait_of_Mamata_Banerjee.jpg/150px-Official_portrait_of_Mamata_Banerjee.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Official_portrait_of_Mamata_Banerjee.jpg/200px-Official_portrait_of_Mamata_Banerjee.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2392" data-file-height="2290" /></a></span> </td> <td rowspan="3"><b><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Railways_(India)" title="Ministry of Railways (India)">Minister of Railways</a></b> </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Mamata_Banerjee" title="Mamata Banerjee">Mamata Banerjee</a></b><br /><small>(born 1955)</small> </td> <td>23 May 2009 </td> <td>19 May 2011 </td> <th><b><span data-sort-value="7002726000000000000♠"></span>1 year, 361 days</b> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Kolkata_Dakshin_Lok_Sabha_constituency" title="Kolkata Dakshin Lok Sabha constituency">Calcutta South</a><br /><small>(<a href="/wiki/Lok_Sabha" title="Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha</a>)</small> </td> <td rowspan="11"><a href="/wiki/Manmohan_Singh" title="Manmohan Singh">Manmohan Singh</a> </td> <td rowspan="11" style="background-color:#19AAED; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td></tr> <tr> <th>4 </th> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Union_Minister_of_Railways,_Shri_Dinesh_Trivedi_holding_a_Press_Conference_to_announce_the_setting_up_of_an_expert_group_for_modernization_of_Indian_Railways,_in_New_Delhi_on_September_21,_2011.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/The_Union_Minister_of_Railways%2C_Shri_Dinesh_Trivedi_holding_a_Press_Conference_to_announce_the_setting_up_of_an_expert_group_for_modernization_of_Indian_Railways%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_September_21%2C_2011.jpg/100px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="70" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/The_Union_Minister_of_Railways%2C_Shri_Dinesh_Trivedi_holding_a_Press_Conference_to_announce_the_setting_up_of_an_expert_group_for_modernization_of_Indian_Railways%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_September_21%2C_2011.jpg/150px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/The_Union_Minister_of_Railways%2C_Shri_Dinesh_Trivedi_holding_a_Press_Conference_to_announce_the_setting_up_of_an_expert_group_for_modernization_of_Indian_Railways%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_September_21%2C_2011.jpg/200px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2200" data-file-height="1534" /></a></span> </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Dinesh_Trivedi" title="Dinesh Trivedi">Dinesh Trivedi</a></b><br /><small>(born 1950)</small> </td> <td>12 July 2011 </td> <td>20 March 2012 </td> <th><b><span data-sort-value="7002252000000000000♠"></span>252 days</b> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Barrackpore_Lok_Sabha_constituency" title="Barrackpore Lok Sabha constituency">Barrackpore</a><br /><small>(<a href="/wiki/Lok_Sabha" title="Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha</a>)</small> </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="3">5 </th> <td rowspan="3"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Mukul_Roy.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Mukul_Roy.png/100px-Mukul_Roy.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="106" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Mukul_Roy.png/150px-Mukul_Roy.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Mukul_Roy.png/200px-Mukul_Roy.png 2x" data-file-width="556" data-file-height="588" /></a></span> </td> <td rowspan="3"><b><a href="/wiki/Mukul_Roy" title="Mukul Roy">Mukul Roy</a></b><br /><small>(born 1954)</small> </td> <td>20 March 2012 </td> <td>22 September 2012 </td> <th><b><span data-sort-value="7002186000000000000♠"></span>186 days</b> </th> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/West_Bengal" title="West Bengal">West Bengal</a><br /><small>(<a href="/wiki/Rajya_Sabha" title="Rajya Sabha">Rajya Sabha</a>)</small> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Railways_(India)" title="Ministry of Railways (India)">Minister of Railways</a></b><br /><b>(<abbr title="Minister of State">MoS</abbr>)</b> </td> <td>19 May 2011 </td> <td>12 July 2011 </td> <th><b><span data-sort-value="7001540000000000000♠"></span>54 days</b> </th></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Shipping_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Shipping (India)">Minister of Shipping</a></b><br /><b>(<abbr title="Minister of State">MoS</abbr>)</b> </td> <td>28 May 2009 </td> <td>20 March 2012 </td> <th><b><span data-sort-value="7003102700000000000♠"></span>2 years, 297 days</b> </th></tr> <tr> <th>6 </th> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Union_Minister_of_Railways,_Shri_Dinesh_Trivedi_holding_a_Press_Conference_to_announce_the_setting_up_of_an_expert_group_for_modernization_of_Indian_Railways,_in_New_Delhi_on_September_21,_2011.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/The_Union_Minister_of_Railways%2C_Shri_Dinesh_Trivedi_holding_a_Press_Conference_to_announce_the_setting_up_of_an_expert_group_for_modernization_of_Indian_Railways%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_September_21%2C_2011.jpg/100px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="70" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/The_Union_Minister_of_Railways%2C_Shri_Dinesh_Trivedi_holding_a_Press_Conference_to_announce_the_setting_up_of_an_expert_group_for_modernization_of_Indian_Railways%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_September_21%2C_2011.jpg/150px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/The_Union_Minister_of_Railways%2C_Shri_Dinesh_Trivedi_holding_a_Press_Conference_to_announce_the_setting_up_of_an_expert_group_for_modernization_of_Indian_Railways%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_September_21%2C_2011.jpg/200px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2200" data-file-height="1534" /></a></span> </td> <td rowspan="2"><b><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Health_and_Family_Welfare_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (India)">Minister of Health & Family Welfare</a></b><br /><b>(<abbr title="Minister of State">MoS</abbr>)</b> </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Dinesh_Trivedi" title="Dinesh Trivedi">Dinesh Trivedi</a></b><br /><small>(born 1950)</small> </td> <td>28 May 2009 </td> <td>12 July 2011 </td> <th><b><span data-sort-value="7002775000000000000♠"></span>2 years, 45 days</b> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Barrackpore_Lok_Sabha_constituency" title="Barrackpore Lok Sabha constituency">Barrackpore</a><br /><small>(<a href="/wiki/Lok_Sabha" title="Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha</a>)</small> </td></tr> <tr> <th>7 </th> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Shri_Sudip_Bandyopadhyay_official_portrait.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Shri_Sudip_Bandyopadhyay_official_portrait.jpg/100px-Shri_Sudip_Bandyopadhyay_official_portrait.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Shri_Sudip_Bandyopadhyay_official_portrait.jpg/150px-Shri_Sudip_Bandyopadhyay_official_portrait.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Shri_Sudip_Bandyopadhyay_official_portrait.jpg/200px-Shri_Sudip_Bandyopadhyay_official_portrait.jpg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="1200" /></a></span> </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Sudip_Bandyopadhyay" title="Sudip Bandyopadhyay">Sudip Bandyopadhyay</a></b><br /><small>(born 1952)</small> </td> <td>12 July 2011 </td> <td>22 September 2012 </td> <th><b><span data-sort-value="7002438000000000000♠"></span>1 year, 72 days</b> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Kolkata_Uttar_Lok_Sabha_constituency" title="Kolkata Uttar Lok Sabha constituency">Kolkata Uttar</a><br /><small>(<a href="/wiki/Lok_Sabha" title="Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha</a>)</small> </td></tr> <tr> <th>8 </th> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Saugata_Roy_MP.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Saugata_Roy_MP.jpg/100px-Saugata_Roy_MP.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Saugata_Roy_MP.jpg/150px-Saugata_Roy_MP.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Saugata_Roy_MP.jpg/200px-Saugata_Roy_MP.jpg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="1200" /></a></span> </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Urban_Development_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Urban Development (India)">Minister of Urban Development</a></b><br /><b>(<abbr title="Minister of State">MoS</abbr>)</b> </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Saugata_Roy" title="Saugata Roy">Saugata Roy</a></b><br /><small>(born 1946)</small> </td> <td rowspan="4">28 May 2009 </td> <td rowspan="4">22 September 2012 </td> <th rowspan="4"><b><span data-sort-value="7003121300000000000♠"></span>3 years, 117 days</b> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Dum_Dum_Lok_Sabha_constituency" title="Dum Dum Lok Sabha constituency">Dum Dum</a><br /><small>(<a href="/wiki/Lok_Sabha" title="Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha</a>)</small> </td></tr> <tr> <th>9 </th> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Minister_of_State_of_Rural_Development,_Shri_Sisir_Adhikari_addressing_the_inaugural_session_of_Bharat_Nirman_Public_Information_Campaign,_at_Srirampur,_Bhardaman,_West_Bengal_on_December_11,_2010.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/The_Minister_of_State_of_Rural_Development%2C_Shri_Sisir_Adhikari_addressing_the_inaugural_session_of_Bharat_Nirman_Public_Information_Campaign%2C_at_Srirampur%2C_Bhardaman%2C_West_Bengal_on_December_11%2C_2010.jpg/100px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" 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/><small>(born 1941)</small> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kanthi_Lok_Sabha_constituency" title="Kanthi Lok Sabha constituency">Kanthi</a><br /><small>(<a href="/wiki/Lok_Sabha" title="Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha</a>)</small> </td></tr> <tr> <th>10 </th> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Minister_of_State_for_Tourism,_Shri_Sultan_Ahmed_addressing_at_the_inauguration_of_Bharat_Nirman_Public_Information_Campaign,_at_Shyampur,_Howrah,_in_West_Bengal_on_November_13,_2010.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/The_Minister_of_State_for_Tourism%2C_Shri_Sultan_Ahmed_addressing_at_the_inauguration_of_Bharat_Nirman_Public_Information_Campaign%2C_at_Shyampur%2C_Howrah%2C_in_West_Bengal_on_November_13%2C_2010.jpg/100px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="75" class="mw-file-element" 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href="/wiki/Uluberia_Lok_Sabha_constituency" title="Uluberia Lok Sabha constituency">Uluberia</a><br /><small>(<a href="/wiki/Lok_Sabha" title="Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha</a>)</small> </td></tr> <tr> <th>11 </th> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Chowdhury_Mohan_Jatua_presenting_the_award_for_the_Best_Actor_to_Mr._Sasson_Gabey_for_the_film_%E2%80%9CRestoration%E2%80%9D_at_the_closing_ceremony_of_the_42nd_International_Film_Festival_of_India_(IFFI-2011),_at_Panaji,_Goa.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Chowdhury_Mohan_Jatua_presenting_the_award_for_the_Best_Actor_to_Mr._Sasson_Gabey_for_the_film_%E2%80%9CRestoration%E2%80%9D_at_the_closing_ceremony_of_the_42nd_International_Film_Festival_of_India_%28IFFI-2011%29%2C_at_Panaji%2C_Goa.jpg/100px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="112" class="mw-file-element" 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title="Choudhury Mohan Jatua">Choudhury Mohan Jatua</a></b><br /><small>(born 1939)</small> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mathurapur_Lok_Sabha_constituency" title="Mathurapur Lok Sabha constituency">Mathurapur</a><br /><small>(<a href="/wiki/Lok_Sabha" title="Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha</a>)</small> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leadership">Leadership</h2></div> <p>The highest decision-making body of the party is its Core Committee. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mamata_Banerjee" title="Mamata Banerjee">Mamata Banerjee</a> — Founder,<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Chairperson, Leader of the party in the <a href="/wiki/West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly" title="West Bengal Legislative Assembly">West Bengal Legislative Assembly</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_of_West_Bengal" title="List of chief ministers of West Bengal">Chief Minister of West Bengal</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abhishek_Banerjee_(politician)" title="Abhishek Banerjee (politician)">Abhishek Banerjee</a> — General Secretary</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derek_O%27Brien_(politician)" title="Derek O'Brien (politician)">Derek O'Brien</a> —Leader of the party in the <a href="/wiki/Rajya_Sabha" title="Rajya Sabha">Rajya Sabha</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sudip_Bandyopadhyay" title="Sudip Bandyopadhyay">Sudip Bandyopadhyay</a> — Leader of the party in the <a href="/wiki/Lok_Sabha" title="Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kakoli_Ghosh_Dastidar" title="Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar">Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar</a> — Deputy leader of the party in the <a href="/wiki/Lok_Sabha" title="Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalyan_Banerjee_(politician)" title="Kalyan Banerjee (politician)">Kalyan Banerjee</a> — <a href="/wiki/Chief_Whip" title="Chief Whip">Chief Whip</a> of the party in the <a href="/wiki/Lok_Sabha" title="Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sukhendu_Shekhar_Roy" class="mw-redirect" title="Sukhendu Shekhar Roy">Sukhendu Shekhar Roy</a> — Chief Whip of TMC in <a href="/wiki/Rajya_Sabha" title="Rajya Sabha">Rajya Shabha</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mukul_Sangma" title="Mukul Sangma">Mukul Sangma</a> — Ex Leader of the Opposition in <a href="/wiki/Meghalaya_Legislative_Assembly" title="Meghalaya Legislative Assembly">Meghalaya Legislative Assembly</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aroop_Biswas" title="Aroop Biswas">Aroop Biswas</a> — Treasurer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sovandeb_Chattopadhyay" title="Sovandeb Chattopadhyay">Sobhandeb Chatteejee</a> -Deputy Leader of House of West Bengal Legislative Assembly.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="State/union_territorial_president_and_in-charge"><span id="State.2Funion_territorial_president_and_in-charge"></span>State/union territorial president and in-charge</h2></div> <style 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width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Trinamool_Congress" title="Special:EditPage/Trinamool Congress">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">June 2023</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>This is a list of the official state, territorial and regional committees of the All India Trinamool Congress. </p> <table class="sortable wikitable" style="text-align:center" width="70%"> <tbody><tr> <th>State/UT </th> <th>Committee </th> <th>President </th> <th>In-charge </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="4" align="center" style="background: #00BFFF; color:white;">State Committees of the All India Trinamool Congress </th></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh" title="Andhra Pradesh">Andhra Pradesh</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Andhra_Pradesh" class="mw-redirect" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Andhra Pradesh">AITC Andhra Pradesh</a> </td> <td><b>NA</b> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Arunachal_Pradesh" title="Arunachal Pradesh">Arunachal Pradesh</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Arunachal_Pradesh" class="mw-redirect" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Arunachal Pradesh">AITC Arunachal Pradesh</a> </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Chakat_Aboh" title="Chakat Aboh">Chakat Aboh</a></b> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Assam" title="Assam">Assam</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Assam&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Assam (page does not exist)">AITC Assam</a> </td> <td>Vacant </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sushmita_Dev" title="Sushmita Dev">Sushmita Dev</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Bihar" title="Bihar">Bihar</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Bihar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Bihar (page does not exist)">AITC Bihar</a> </td> <td><b>Mr. <a href="/wiki/Kirti_Azad" title="Kirti Azad">Kirti Azad</a></b> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Chhattisgarh" title="Chhattisgarh">Chhattisgarh</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Chhattisgarh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Chhattisgarh (page does not exist)">AITC Chhattisgarh</a> </td> <td><b>NA</b> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Goa" title="Goa">Goa</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Goa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Goa (page does not exist)">AITC Goa</a> </td> <td><b>Mr. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Samil_Volvoikar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Samil Volvoikar (page does not exist)">Samil Volvoikar</a></b> </td> <td><b>Mr. <a href="/wiki/Kirti_Azad" title="Kirti Azad">Kirti Azad</a></b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Gujarat" title="Gujarat">Gujarat</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Gujarat&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Gujarat (page does not exist)">AITC Gujarat</a> </td> <td><b>Mr. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jitendra_Kumar_Khadayata&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jitendra Kumar Khadayata (page does not exist)">Jitendra Kumar Khadayata</a></b> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Haryana" title="Haryana">Haryana</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Haryana&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Haryana (page does not exist)">AITC Haryana</a> </td> <td><b>NA </b> </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Sukhendu_Shekhar_Roy" class="mw-redirect" title="Sukhendu Shekhar Roy">Sukhendu Shekhar Roy</a></b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Himachal_Pradesh" title="Himachal Pradesh">Himachal Pradesh</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Himachal_Pradesh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Himachal Pradesh (page does not exist)">AITC Himachal Pradesh</a> </td> <td><b>NA </b> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Jharkhand" title="Jharkhand">Jharkhand</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Jharkhand&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Jharkhand (page does not exist)">AITC Jharkhand</a> </td> <td><b>NA </b> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Karnataka" title="Karnataka">Karnataka</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Karnataka&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Karnataka (page does not exist)">AITC Karnataka</a> </td> <td><b>NA</b> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Kerala" title="Kerala">Kerala</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Kerala&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Kerala (page does not exist)">AITC Kerala</a> </td> <td><b>Dr. Harish Palathingal</b> </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Derek_O%27Brien_(politician)" title="Derek O'Brien (politician)">Derek O'Brien</a></b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Madhya_Pradesh" title="Madhya Pradesh">Madhya Pradesh</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Madhya_Pradesh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Madhya Pradesh (page does not exist)">AITC Madhya Pradesh</a> </td> <td><b>NA</b> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Maharashtra" title="Maharashtra">Maharashtra</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Maharashtra&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Maharashtra (page does not exist)">AITC Maharashtra</a> </td> <td><b>NA</b> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Manipur" title="Manipur">Manipur</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Manipur&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Manipur (page does not exist)">AITC Manipur</a> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Meghalaya" title="Meghalaya">Meghalaya</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Meghalaya&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Meghalaya (page does not exist)">AITC Meghalaya</a> </td> <td><b>Mr. <a href="/wiki/Charles_Pyngrope" title="Charles Pyngrope">Charles Pyngrope</a></b> </td> <td><b>Mr. <a href="/wiki/Manas_Bhunia" title="Manas Bhunia">Manas Bhunia</a></b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Mizoram" title="Mizoram">Mizoram</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Mizoram&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Mizoram (page does not exist)">AITC Mizoram</a> </td> <td><b>NA</b> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Nagaland" title="Nagaland">Nagaland</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Nagaland&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Nagaland (page does not exist)">AITC Nagaland</a> </td> <td><b>NA</b> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Odisha" title="Odisha">Odisha</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Odisha&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Odisha (page does not exist)">AITC Odisha</a> </td> <td><b> NA</b> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Punjab,_India" title="Punjab, India">Punjab</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Punjab&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Punjab (page does not exist)">AITC Punjab</a> </td> <td><b><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manjit_Singh_(Trinamool_Congress)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Manjit Singh (Trinamool Congress) (page does not exist)">Manjit Singh</a></b> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Rajasthan" title="Rajasthan">Rajasthan</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Rajasthan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Rajasthan (page does not exist)">AITC Rajasthan</a> </td> <td><b>NA</b> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Sikkim" title="Sikkim">Sikkim</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Sikkim&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Sikkim (page does not exist)">AITC Sikkim</a> </td> <td><b>NA</b> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Tamil_Nadu" title="Tamil Nadu">Tamil Nadu</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Tamil_Nadu&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Tamil Nadu (page does not exist)">AITC Tamil Nadu</a> </td> <td><b>Dr. <a href="/wiki/Sabita_Tamilini" title="Sabita Tamilini">Sabita Tamilini</a></b> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Telangana" title="Telangana">Telangana</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Telangana&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Telangana (page does not exist)">AITC Telangana</a> </td> <td><b>NA</b> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Tripura" title="Tripura">Tripura</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Tripura&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Tripura (page does not exist)">AITC Tripura</a> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Rajib_Banerjee" title="Rajib Banerjee">Rajib Banerjee</a></b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh" title="Uttar Pradesh">Uttar Pradesh</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Uttar_Pradesh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Uttar Pradesh (page does not exist)">AITC Uttar Pradesh</a> </td> <td><b>Laliteshpati Tripathi</b> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Uttarkhand" class="mw-redirect" title="Uttarkhand">Uttarkhand</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Uttarkhand&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Uttarkhand (page does not exist)">AITC Uttarkhand</a> </td> <td><b>NA</b> </td> <td><b> TBD</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/West_Bengal" title="West Bengal">West Bengal</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_West_Bengal" class="mw-redirect" title="All India Trinamool Congress, West Bengal">AITC West Bengal</a> </td> <td><b>Mr. <a href="/wiki/Subrata_Bakshi" title="Subrata Bakshi">Subrata Bakshi</a></b> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="4" align="center" style="background: #00BFFF; color:white;">Union Territorial Committees of the All India Trinamool Congress </th></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Andaman_and_Nicobar_Islands" title="Andaman and Nicobar Islands">Andaman and Nicobar Islands</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Andaman_and_Nicobar_Islands&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Andaman and Nicobar Islands (page does not exist)">AITC Andaman and Nicobar Islands</a> </td> <td><b>Ayan Mandal </b> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Chandigarh" title="Chandigarh">Chandigarh</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Chandigarh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Chandigarh (page does not exist)">AITC Chandigarh</a> </td> <td><b>NA</b> </td> <td><b>NA</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Dadra_and_Nagar_Haveli_and_Daman_and_Diu" title="Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu">Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Dadra_and_Nagar_Haveli&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Dadra and Nagar Haveli (page does not exist)">AITC Dadra and Nagar Haveli</a> </td> <td><b>NA</b> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Lakshadweep" title="Lakshadweep">Lakshadweep</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Lakshadweep&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Lakshadweep (page does not exist)">AITC Lakshadweep</a> </td> <td><b>NA </b> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Delhi" title="Delhi">Delhi</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Delhi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Delhi (page does not exist)">AITC Delhi</a> </td> <td><b>NA</b> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Jammu_and_Kashmir_(union_territory)" title="Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)">Jammu and Kashmir</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Jammu_and_Kashmir&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Jammu and Kashmir (page does not exist)">AITC Jammu and Kashmir</a> </td> <td><b>NA</b> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Ladakh" title="Ladakh">Ladakh</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Ladakh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Ladakh (page does not exist)">AITC Ladakh</a> </td> <td><b>NA</b> </td> <td><b>TBD</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Puducherry_(union_territory)" title="Puducherry (union territory)">Puducherry</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trinamool_Congress,_Puducherry&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All India Trinamool Congress, Puducherry (page does not exist)">AITC Puducherry</a> </td> <td><b>NA </b> </td> <td><b>Dr. <a href="/wiki/Sabita_Tamilini" title="Sabita Tamilini">Sabita Tamilini</a> </b> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_chairpersons">List of chairpersons</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content 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Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">January 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>This is a list of <a href="/wiki/Chairperson" class="mw-redirect" title="Chairperson">chairpersons</a> of the <a href="/wiki/All_India_Trinamool_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="All India Trinamool Congress">All India Trinamool Congress</a>. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ajit_Kumar_Panja" title="Ajit Kumar Panja">Ajit Kumar Panja</a> (1998–2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mamata_Banerjee" title="Mamata Banerjee">Mamata Banerjee</a> (2001–present)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_the_national_general_secretaries">List of the national general secretaries</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Trinamool_Congress" title="Special:EditPage/Trinamool Congress">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">January 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>This is a list of national <a href="/wiki/General_secretary" class="mw-redirect" title="General secretary">general secretaries</a> of the <a href="/wiki/All_India_Trinamool_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="All India Trinamool Congress">All India Trinamool Congress</a>. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mukul_Roy" title="Mukul Roy">Mukul Roy</a> (2006 – 2015 dissolution)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subrata_Bakshi" title="Subrata Bakshi">Subrata Bakshi</a> (2015–2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abhishek_Banerjee_(politician)" title="Abhishek Banerjee (politician)">Abhishek Banerjee</a> (2021–present)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Corruption_cases_and_conviction">Corruption cases and conviction</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2014_Saradha_Group_financial_scandal">2014 Saradha Group financial scandal</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Saradha_Group_financial_scandal" title="Saradha Group financial scandal">Saradha Group financial scandal</a></div> <p>The Saradha Group financial scandal and the <a href="/wiki/Rose_Valley_financial_scandal" title="Rose Valley financial scandal">Rose Valley financial scandal</a> came to light during her tenure and some of her cabinet ministers were accused of money laundering and have been incarcerated.<sup id="cite_ref-WB_Minister_Madan_Mitra_arrested_110-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WB_Minister_Madan_Mitra_arrested-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of her paintings was also sold to Sudipto Sen (central figure in the <a href="/wiki/Saradha_scam" class="mw-redirect" title="Saradha scam">Saradha scam</a>) for <span class="nowrap"><span style="white-space: nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Indian_rupee" title="Indian rupee">₹</a></span>1.8 <a href="/wiki/Crore" title="Crore">crore</a></span> (equivalent to <span style="white-space: nowrap">₹</span>2.4 crore or US$290,000 in 2023), while 20 more of her pictures were seized from other Saradha Group shareholders.<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She has been criticised by opposition parties for not taking adequate steps against her own ministers who tried to cover-up their deeds.<sup id="cite_ref-firstpost_116-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-firstpost-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-intoday_117-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-intoday-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sudipto Sen was arrested from Kashmir.<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Shyamal Sen Commission, set up by the Chief Minister, was able to return <span class="nowrap"><span style="white-space: nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Indian_rupee" title="Indian rupee">₹</a></span>185 <a href="/wiki/Crore" title="Crore">crore</a></span> (equivalent to <span style="white-space: nowrap">₹</span>296 crore or US$35 million in 2023) to the depositors.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Leaders from Congress and CPI(M) like <a href="/wiki/Adhir_Ranjan_Chowdhury" title="Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury">Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sujan_Chakraborty" title="Sujan Chakraborty">Sujan Chakraborty</a>, <a href="/wiki/Biman_Bose" title="Biman Bose">Biman Bose</a> were also accused in this scam.<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite <a href="/wiki/Bankshall_Court" title="Bankshall Court">Bankshall Court</a>'s order to investigate into this matter, no action has been taken by CBI against any of these leaders (other than TMC leaders) to date.<sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rose_Valley_financial_scandal">Rose Valley financial scandal</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Rose_Valley_financial_scandal" title="Rose Valley financial scandal">Rose Valley financial scandal</a></div> <p>The Rose Valley financial scandal was a major financial scam and alleged <a href="/wiki/Political_scandal" title="Political scandal">political scandal</a> in India caused by the collapse of a <a href="/wiki/Ponzi_scheme" title="Ponzi scheme">Ponzi scheme</a> run by Rose Valley Group where multiple MPs from Banerjee's party were accused of <a href="/wiki/Money_laundering" title="Money laundering">money laundering</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-first_post_122-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-first_post-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-int_123-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-int-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-hindu_line_124-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hindu_line-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2016_Narada_scam">2016 Narada scam</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Narada_sting_operation" title="Narada sting operation">Narada sting operation</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Narada_sting_operation" title="Narada sting operation">Narada sting operation</a> was carried out by <a href="/wiki/Mathew_Samuel" title="Mathew Samuel">Mathew Samuel</a> in 2011 for the Indian newsmagazine <i>Tehelka</i> and published on Naradanews.com just before the 2016 West Bengal Assembly elections. The sting targeted high-ranking officials and politicians of Banerjee's political party All India Trinamool Congress (AITC).<sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During her tenure she challenged the federal system of India when she ordered the arrest of <a href="/wiki/Central_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Central Bureau of Investigation">CBI</a> officials, who arrived in Kolkata to investigate the Saradha Group financial scandal.<sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> But CBI's attempted arrest of Kolkata Police Commissioner was also an attack on federalism.<sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2022_coal_scam_case">2022 coal scam case</h3></div> <p>Rujira Banerjee, the wife of <a href="/wiki/Abhishek_Banerjee_(politician)" title="Abhishek Banerjee (politician)">Abhishek Banerjee</a>, the Lok Sabha member and national general secretary of the Trinamool Congress, appeared before the <a href="/wiki/Enforcement_Directorate" title="Enforcement Directorate">Enforcement Directorate</a> (ED) on Thursday after being prevented from boarding a flight to the UAE earlier this week due to a "lookout" notice issued by the central organisation. Rujira received a summons to appear before the organisation on 8 June when she arrived at the airport. She was questioned by the ED in relation to the coal theft case last year. She had previously been questioned by the CBI in the same matter in 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to officials, as quoted by the news agency PTI, Rujira appeared before the ED in Kolkata on Thursday for questioning about the coal theft case. Rujira was being questioned by a team of five officials, including those from New Delhi. In a money-laundering case related to a West Bengal coal scam, the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_India" title="Supreme Court of India">Supreme Court of India</a> on Tuesday stayed a Delhi High Court decision allowing the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to question Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee in Delhi, but allowed the investigation agency to question him in Kolkata after providing 24 hours' notice.<sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2022_cattle_smuggling_case">2022 cattle smuggling case</h3></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Anubrata_Mondal" title="Anubrata Mondal">Anubrata Mondal</a>, a powerful member of the Trinamool Congress who was detained on 11 August, has been placed in the custody of the CBI until 20 August. On the evening of 11 August, Mondal was transferred from Asansol to the CBI office in Kolkata's Nizam Palace, where he is currently being questioned.<sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mondal is one of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's most dependable aides, and he was in charge of all TMC operations in Birbhum. The ongoing cross-border cattle smuggling case, which allegedly involves a connection between BSF, Customs, and police personnel with racketeers and politicians, has come back into the spotlight as a result of the arrest of the TMC strongman.<sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2022_West_Bengal_School_Service_recruitment_scam">2022 West Bengal School Service recruitment scam</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/West_Bengal_School_Service_Commission_recruitment_scam_2022" class="mw-redirect" title="West Bengal School Service Commission recruitment scam 2022">West Bengal School Service Commission recruitment scam 2022</a></div> <p>West Bengal School Service recruitment scam is an ongoing education <a href="/wiki/SSC_scam" class="mw-redirect" title="SSC scam">SSC scam</a> in <a href="/wiki/West_Bengal" title="West Bengal">West Bengal</a>, <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> since 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The scam is being currently investigated jointly by <a href="/wiki/Central_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Central Bureau of Investigation">Central Bureau of Investigation</a> and <a href="/wiki/Enforcement_Directorate" title="Enforcement Directorate">Enforcement Directorate</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The scam was revealed, following the arrest of <a href="/wiki/Partha_Chatterjee_(politician)" title="Partha Chatterjee (politician)">Partha Chatterjee</a>, a Trinamool Congress leader, who has served as the Minister of Education in the Mamata Banerjee's cabinet until his arrest on 23 July 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-139" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-139"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Allegations_of_extortion">Allegations of extortion</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Syndicate_Raj" title="Syndicate Raj">Syndicate Raj</a></div> <p>Before Trinamool (AITC) took office in West Bengal in 2011, the regional AITC party leaders grew significantly in strength. The leaders allegedly began requesting a portion of the funds used to construct any new buildings in the region. As time went on, various groups in various locations began to emerge and link with various local AITC leaders. The entire syndicate business is alleged to have prospered when AITC ultimately won the 2011 Legislative Assembly election and began their tenure.<sup id="cite_ref-140" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-140"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-141" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-141"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-142" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-142"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid 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"2. Rise and Growth of AITC". <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=d-u9DwAAQBAJ"><i>Left Front and After: Understanding the Dynamics of Poriborton in West Bengal</i></a>. 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href="http://hdl.handle.net/10603/285507"><i>Dynamics of Opposition Politics in West Bengal (1998–2011)</i></a> (Thesis). <a href="/wiki/Shodhganga" title="Shodhganga">Shodhganga</a>: Rabindra Bharati University. <a href="/wiki/Hdl_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hdl (identifier)">hdl</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10603%2F285507">10603/285507</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adissertation&rft.title=Dynamics+of+Opposition+Politics+in+West+Bengal+%281998%E2%80%932011%29&rft.inst=Rabindra+Bharati+University&rft.date=2017&rft_id=info%3Ahdl%2F10603%2F285507&rft.aulast=Piyali&rft.aufirst=Basu&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10603%2F285507&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATrinamool+Congress" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div> <ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a 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title="Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation">Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Desiya_Murpokku_Dravida_Kazhagam" title="Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam">Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goa_Forward_Party" title="Goa Forward Party">Goa Forward Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hill_State_People%27s_Democratic_Party" title="Hill State People's Democratic Party">Hill State People's Democratic Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Lok_Dal" title="Indian National Lok Dal">Indian National Lok Dal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_Union_Muslim_League" title="Indian Union Muslim League">Indian Union Muslim League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indigenous_People%27s_Front_of_Tripura" title="Indigenous People's Front of Tripura">Indigenous People's Front of Tripura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jammu_and_Kashmir_National_Conference" class="mw-redirect" title="Jammu and Kashmir National Conference">Jammu and Kashmir National Conference</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jammu_and_Kashmir_People%27s_Democratic_Party" title="Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party">Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janasena_Party" title="Janasena Party">Janasena Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janata_Dal_(Secular)" title="Janata Dal (Secular)">Janata Dal (Secular)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janata_Dal_(United)" title="Janata Dal (United)">Janata Dal (United)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jannayak_Janta_Party" title="Jannayak Janta Party">Jannayak Janta Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janta_Congress_Chhattisgarh" title="Janta Congress Chhattisgarh">Janta Congress Chhattisgarh (J)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jharkhand_Mukti_Morcha" title="Jharkhand Mukti Morcha">Jharkhand Mukti Morcha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kerala_Congress_(M)" title="Kerala Congress (M)">Kerala Congress (M)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lok_Janshakti_Party_(Ram_Vilas)" title="Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)">Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maharashtra_Navnirman_Sena" title="Maharashtra Navnirman Sena">Maharashtra Navnirman Sena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maharashtrawadi_Gomantak_Party" title="Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party">Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mizo_National_Front" title="Mizo National Front">Mizo National Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naam_Tamilar_Katchi" title="Naam Tamilar Katchi">Naam Tamilar Katchi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naga_People%27s_Front" title="Naga People's Front">Naga People's Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nationalist_Congress_Party" title="Nationalist Congress Party">Nationalist Congress Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nationalist_Congress_Party_%E2%80%93_Sharadchandra_Pawar" title="Nationalist Congress Party – Sharadchandra Pawar">Nationalist Congress Party – Sharadchandra Pawar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nationalist_Democratic_Progressive_Party" title="Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party">Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Party_of_Arunachal" title="People's Party of Arunachal">People's Party of Arunachal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Democratic_Front_(Meghalaya)" title="People's Democratic Front (Meghalaya)">People's Democratic Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rashtriya_Janata_Dal" title="Rashtriya Janata Dal">Rashtriya Janata Dal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rashtriya_Lok_Janshakti_Party" title="Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party">Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rashtriya_Lok_Samta_Party" title="Rashtriya Lok Samta Party">Rashtriya Lok Samta Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rashtriya_Loktantrik_Party" title="Rashtriya Loktantrik Party">Rashtriya Loktantrik Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_Goans_Party" title="Revolutionary Goans Party">Revolutionary Goans Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_Socialist_Party_(India)" title="Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)">Revolutionary Socialist Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samajwadi_Party" title="Samajwadi Party">Samajwadi Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shiromani_Akali_Dal" title="Shiromani Akali Dal">Shiromani Akali Dal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shiv_Sena" title="Shiv Sena">Shiv Sena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shiv_Sena_(UBT)" title="Shiv Sena (UBT)">Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sikkim_Democratic_Front" title="Sikkim Democratic Front">Sikkim Democratic Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sikkim_Krantikari_Morcha" title="Sikkim Krantikari Morcha">Sikkim Krantikari Morcha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telugu_Desam_Party" title="Telugu Desam Party">Telugu Desam Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tipra_Motha_Party" title="Tipra Motha Party">Tipra Motha Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Democratic_Party_(Meghalaya)" title="United Democratic Party (Meghalaya)">United Democratic Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_People%27s_Party,_Liberal" title="United People's Party, Liberal">United People's Party, Liberal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Voice_of_the_People_Party_(Meghalaya)" title="Voice of the People Party (Meghalaya)">Voice of the People Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viduthalai_Chiruthaigal_Katchi" title="Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi">Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuvajana_Sramika_Rythu_Congress_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party">Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zoram_Nationalist_Party" title="Zoram Nationalist Party">Zoram Nationalist Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zoram_People%27s_Movement" title="Zoram People's Movement">Zoram People's Movement</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" 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href="/wiki/Apna_Dal_(Kamerawadi)" title="Apna Dal (Kamerawadi)">Apna Dal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azad_Samaj_Party_(Kanshi_Ram)" title="Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram)">Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bahujan_Mukti_Party" title="Bahujan Mukti Party">Bahujan Mukti Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bharipa_Bahujan_Mahasangh" title="Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh">Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Tribal_Party" title="Bharatiya Tribal Party">Bharatiya Tribal Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Marxist_Party" title="Communist Marxist Party">Communist Marxist Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Congress_(Secular)" title="Congress (Secular)">Congress (Secular)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Azad_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic Azad Party">Democratic Azad Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Socialist_Party_(Prabodh_Chandra)" title="Democratic Socialist Party (Prabodh Chandra)">Democratic Socialist Party (Prabodh Chandra)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Desiya_Makkal_Sakthi_Katchi" title="Desiya Makkal Sakthi Katchi">Desiya Makkal Sakthi Katchi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goa_Vikas_Party" title="Goa Vikas Party">Goa Vikas Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gondwana_Ganatantra_Party" title="Gondwana Ganatantra Party">Gondwana Ganatantra Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gorkha_Janmukti_Morcha" title="Gorkha Janmukti Morcha">Gorkha Janmukti Morcha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamro_Sikkim_Party" title="Hamro Sikkim Party">Hamro Sikkim Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hindustan_Janta_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindustan Janta Party">Hindustan Janta Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hindustani_Awam_Morcha" title="Hindustani Awam Morcha">Hindustani Awam Morcha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ikkjutt_Jammu" title="Ikkjutt Jammu">Ikkjutt Jammu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indhiya_Jananayaga_Katchi" class="mw-redirect" title="Indhiya Jananayaga Katchi">Indhiya Jananayaga Katchi</a></li> <li><a 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title="Jharkhand Party">Jharkhand Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karnataka_Pragnyavantha_Janatha_Party" title="Karnataka Pragnyavantha Janatha Party">Karnataka Pragnyavantha Janatha Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khun_Hynniewtrep_National_Awakening_Movement" title="Khun Hynniewtrep National Awakening Movement">Khun Hynniewtrep National Awakening Movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kerala_Congress_(B)" title="Kerala Congress (B)">Kerala Congress (Balakrishna Pillai)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kerala_Congress_(Jacob)" title="Kerala Congress (Jacob)">Kerala Congress (Jacob)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kerala_Congress_(Thomas)" title="Kerala Congress (Thomas)">Kerala Congress (Thomas)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kongunadu_Makkal_Desia_Katchi" title="Kongunadu Makkal Desia Katchi">Kongunadu Makkal Desia Katchi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lok_Insaaf_Party" title="Lok Insaaf Party">Lok Insaaf Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loktantrik_Janata_Dal" title="Loktantrik Janata Dal">Loktantrik Janata Dal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahan_Dal" title="Mahan Dal">Mahan Dal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Makkal_Needhi_Maiam" title="Makkal Needhi Maiam">Makkal Needhi Maiam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marumalarchi_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marxist_Co-ordination_Committee" title="Marxist Co-ordination Committee">Marxist Co-ordination Committee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Secular_Conference" title="National Secular Conference">National Secular Conference</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NISHAD_Party" title="NISHAD Party">NISHAD Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pattali_Makkal_Katchi" title="Pattali Makkal Katchi">Pattali Makkal Katchi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puratchi_Bharatham_Katchi" title="Puratchi Bharatham Katchi">Puratchi Bharatham Katchi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puthiya_Needhi_Katchi" class="mw-redirect" title="Puthiya Needhi Katchi">Puthiya Needhi Katchi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puthiya_Tamilagam" title="Puthiya Tamilagam">Puthiya Tamilagam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raijor_Dal" title="Raijor Dal">Raijor Dal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rashtriya_Lok_Morcha" title="Rashtriya Lok Morcha">Rashtriya Lok Morcha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rashtriya_Samaj_Paksha" title="Rashtriya Samaj Paksha">Rashtriya Samaj Paksha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_of_India_(Athawale)" title="Republican Party of India (Athawale)">Republican Party of India (Athawale)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_Socialist_Party_of_Kerala_(Bolshevik)" title="Revolutionary Socialist Party of Kerala (Bolshevik)">Revolutionary Socialist Party of Kerala (Bolshevik)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_Socialist_Party_(Leninist)" title="Revolutionary Socialist Party (Leninist)">Revolutionary Socialist Party (Leninist)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samajwadi_Janata_Party_(Rashtriya)" title="Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)">Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shiv_Sangram" title="Shiv Sangram">Shiv Sangram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shiromani_Akali_Dal_(Democratic)" title="Shiromani Akali Dal (Democratic)">Shiromani Akali Dal (Democratic)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sikkim_National_People%27s_Party" title="Sikkim National People's Party">Sikkim National People's Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_India" title="Social Democratic Party of India">Social Democratic Party of India</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socialist_Unity_Centre_of_India_(Communist)" title="Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)">Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suheldev_Bharatiya_Samaj_Party" title="Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party">Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swabhimani_Paksha" title="Swabhimani Paksha">Swabhimani Paksha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swatantra_Bharat_Paksh" title="Swatantra Bharat Paksh">Swatantra Bharat Paksh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamil_Maanila_Congress_(Moopanar)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar)">Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamilaga_Vettri_Kazhagam" title="Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam">Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamizhaga_Makkal_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Tamizhaga Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam">Tamizhaga Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamizhaga_Murpokku_Makkal_Katchi" title="Tamizhaga Murpokku Makkal Katchi">Tamizhaga Murpokku Makkal Katchi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telangana_Jana_Samithi" title="Telangana Jana Samithi">Telangana Jana Samithi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tipra_Motha_Party" title="Tipra Motha Party">Tipraha Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Goans_Democratic_Party" title="United Goans Democratic Party">United Goans Democratic Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uttarakhand_Kranti_Dal" title="Uttarakhand Kranti Dal">Uttarakhand Kranti Dal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vanchit_Bahujan_Aaghadi" title="Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi">Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vikassheel_Insaan_Party" title="Vikassheel Insaan Party">Vikassheel Insaan Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Welfare_Party_of_India" title="Welfare Party of India">Welfare Party of India</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="State_of_West_Bengal" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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href="/wiki/Kolkata" title="Kolkata">Kolkata</a></b></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Indian_state_symbols" title="List of Indian state symbols">State symbols</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Indian_state_emblems" title="List of Indian state emblems">Emblem</a>: <a href="/wiki/Emblem_of_West_Bengal" title="Emblem of West Bengal">Emblem of West Bengal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Indian_state_anthems" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Indian state anthems">Anthem</a>: <a href="/wiki/Banglar_Mati_Banglar_Jol" title="Banglar Mati Banglar Jol">Banglar Mati Banglar Jol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Indian_state_animals" title="List of Indian state animals">Animal</a>: <a href="/wiki/Fishing_cat" title="Fishing cat">Fishing cat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Indian_state_birds" title="List of Indian state birds">Bird</a>: <a href="/wiki/White-throated_kingfisher" title="White-throated kingfisher">White-throated kingfisher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Indian_state_flowers" title="List of Indian state flowers">Flower</a>: <a href="/wiki/Nyctanthes_arbor-tristis" title="Nyctanthes arbor-tristis">Night-flowering jasmine (Shiuli)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Indian_state_trees" title="List of Indian state trees">Tree</a>: <a href="/wiki/Alstonia_scholaris" title="Alstonia scholaris">Devil's tree (Saptaparni)</a></li> <li>Fish: <a href="/wiki/Ilish" title="Ilish">Ilish</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/History_of_Bengal" title="History of Bengal">History</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gauda_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Gauda Kingdom">Gauda Kingdom</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shashanka" title="Shashanka">Shashanka</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pala_Empire" title="Pala Empire">Pala Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sena_dynasty" title="Sena dynasty">Sena dynasty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mallabhum_kingdom" title="Mallabhum kingdom">Mallabhum kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cooch_Behar_State" title="Cooch Behar State">Cooch Behar State</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sher_Shah_Suri" title="Sher Shah Suri">Sher Shah Suri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mughal_Empire" title="Mughal Empire">Mughal Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nawabs_of_Bengal" title="Nawabs of Bengal">Nawabs of Bengal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_India_Company" title="East India Company">East India Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Plassey" title="Battle of Plassey">Battle of Plassey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bengal_Presidency" title="Bengal Presidency">Bengal Presidency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Bengal_famine_of_1770" title="Great Bengal famine of 1770">Great Bengal famine of 1770</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_Rebellion_of_1857" title="Indian Rebellion of 1857">Indian Rebellion of 1857</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bengal_Renaissance" title="Bengal Renaissance">Bengal Renaissance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bardhaman_Raj" title="Bardhaman Raj">Bardhaman Raj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nadia_Raj" title="Nadia Raj">Nadia Raj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jhargram_Raj" title="Jhargram Raj">Jhargram Raj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sovabazar_Raj" title="Sovabazar Raj">Sovabazar Raj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Partition_of_Bengal_(1905)" title="Partition of Bengal (1905)">Partition of Bengal (1905)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_movement_for_Indian_independence" title="Revolutionary movement for Indian independence">Revolutionary movement for Indian independence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anushilan_Samiti" title="Anushilan Samiti">Anushilan Samiti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jugantar" title="Jugantar">Jugantar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943" title="Bengal famine of 1943">Bengal famine of 1943</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Direct_Action_Day" title="Direct Action Day">Direct Action Day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noakhali_riots" title="Noakhali riots">Noakhali riots</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Partition_of_Bengal_(1947)" title="Partition of Bengal (1947)">Partition of Bengal (1947)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bengali_Language_Movement_(Manbhum)" title="Bengali Language Movement (Manbhum)">Bengali Language Movement (Manbhum)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bangladesh_Liberation_War" title="Bangladesh Liberation War">Bangladesh Liberation War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naxalite%E2%80%93Maoist_insurgency" title="Naxalite–Maoist insurgency">Naxalite–Maoist insurgency</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_West_Bengal" title="Geography of West Bengal">Geography</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bengal_Basin" title="Bengal Basin">Bengal Basin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darjeeling_Himalayan_hill_region" title="Darjeeling Himalayan hill region">Darjeeling Himalayan hill region</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terai" title="Terai">Terai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Bengal_plains" title="North Bengal plains">North Bengal plains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dooars" title="Dooars">Dooars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rarh_region" title="Rarh region">Rarh region</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sundarbans" title="Sundarbans">Sundarbans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vajjabhumi" title="Vajjabhumi">Western plateau and high lands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ganges_Delta" title="Ganges Delta">Ganges Delta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Climate_of_West_Bengal" title="Climate of West Bengal">Climate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sandakphu" title="Sandakphu">Sandakphu (Highest point)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_protected_areas_of_West_Bengal" title="List of protected areas of West Bengal">Protected areas of West Bengal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Rivers_of_West_Bengal" title="Category:Rivers of West Bengal">Rivers of West Bengal</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ganges" title="Ganges">Ganga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Damodar_River" title="Damodar River">Damodar River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brahmaputra_River" title="Brahmaputra River">Brahmaputra River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teesta_River" title="Teesta River">Teesta River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hooghly_River" title="Hooghly River">Hooghly River</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khoai" title="Khoai">Khoai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiger_Hill,_Darjeeling" title="Tiger Hill, Darjeeling">Tiger Hill, Darjeeling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siliguri_Corridor" title="Siliguri Corridor">Siliguri Corridor</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Government_of_West_Bengal" title="Government of West Bengal">Governance</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_of_West_Bengal" title="List of chief ministers of West Bengal">Chief Ministers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_West_Bengal" title="List of governors of West Bengal">Governor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly" title="West Bengal Legislative Assembly">Legislative Assembly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Bengal_Human_Rights_Commission" title="West Bengal Human Rights Commission">Human Rights Commission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Political_parties_in_West_Bengal" title="Category:Political parties in West Bengal">Political parties</a> (<a class="mw-selflink selflink">All India Trinamool Congress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India_(Marxist)" title="Communist Party of India (Marxist)">Communist Party (Marxist)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Bengal_Pradesh_Congress_Committee" title="West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee">Indian National Congress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party,_West_Bengal" title="Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal">Bharatiya Janata Party</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:Lok_Sabha_constituencies_of_West_Bengal" title="Template:Lok Sabha constituencies of West Bengal">Parliamentary constituencies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_constituencies_of_the_West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly" title="List of constituencies of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly">Assembly constituencies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/CID_West_Bengal" title="CID West Bengal">CID West Bengal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kolkata_Police" title="Kolkata Police">Kolkata Police</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Advocacy_group" title="Advocacy group">Rights groups</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Matua_Mahasangha" title="Matua Mahasangha">Matua Mahasangha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bangla_Pokkho" title="Bangla Pokkho">Bangla Pokkho</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_West_Bengal" title="Administrative divisions of West Bengal">Divisions</a> and <br /><a href="/wiki/List_of_districts_of_West_Bengal" title="List of districts of West Bengal">districts</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Burdwan_division" title="Burdwan division">Burdwan division</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Birbhum_district" title="Birbhum district">Birbhum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hooghly_district" title="Hooghly district">Hooghly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paschim_Bardhaman_district" title="Paschim Bardhaman district">Paschim Bardhaman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Purba_Bardhaman_district" title="Purba Bardhaman district">Purba Bardhaman</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Jalpaiguri_division" title="Jalpaiguri division">Jalpaiguri division</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alipurduar_district" title="Alipurduar district">Alipurduar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cooch_Behar_district" title="Cooch Behar district">Cooch Behar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darjeeling_district" title="Darjeeling district">Darjeeling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jalpaiguri_district" title="Jalpaiguri district">Jalpaiguri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalimpong_district" title="Kalimpong district">Kalimpong</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Malda_division" title="Malda division">Malda division</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Berhampore_district" title="Berhampore district">Berhampore</a> (declared)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dakshin_Dinajpur_district" title="Dakshin Dinajpur district">Dakshin Dinajpur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jangipur_district" title="Jangipur district">Jangipur</a> (declared)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malda_district" title="Malda district">Malda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murshidabad_district" title="Murshidabad district">Murshidabad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uttar_Dinajpur_district" title="Uttar Dinajpur district">Uttar Dinajpur</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Medinipur_division" title="Medinipur division">Medinipur division</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bankura_district" title="Bankura district">Bankura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishnupur_district,_West_Bengal" title="Bishnupur district, West Bengal">Bishnupur</a> (declared)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jhargram_district" title="Jhargram district">Jhargram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paschim_Medinipur_district" title="Paschim Medinipur district">Paschim Medinipur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Purba_Medinipur_district" title="Purba Medinipur district">Purba Medinipur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Purulia_district" title="Purulia district">Purulia</a></li></ul> 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<li><a href="/wiki/Sundarbans_district" title="Sundarbans district">Sundarbans</a> (declared)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Cities_and_towns_in_West_Bengal" title="Cities and towns in West Bengal">Cities and<br /> towns</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alipore" title="Alipore">Alipore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asansol" title="Asansol">Asansol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berhampore" title="Berhampore">Berhampore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balurghat" title="Balurghat">Balurghat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bankura" title="Bankura">Bankura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barasat" title="Barasat">Barasat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bardhaman" title="Bardhaman">Bardhaman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishnupur,_Bankura" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishnupur, 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