All India Trinamool Congress
All India Trinamool Congress or Trinamul Congress ( Bengali : সর্বভারতীয় তৃণমূল কংগ্রেস , sarbabhāratīẏa tṛṇamūl kaṃgres ; German: All India Grassroots Congress ) is a political party in India in the state of West Bengal . It was founded in 1997 by Mamata Banerjee and other former supporters of the Congress Party . The parliamentary elections in West Bengal in 2011 and 2016 were won by the AITC, which then provided the government of the state.
history
The party founder Mamata Banerjee began her political career in West Bengal, initially in the Congress Party. In 1991 she was in the government of Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao Minister for Human Resource Development, Youth and Sports, and Women and Child Development ( Union Minister of State for Human Resources Development, Youth Affairs and Sports, and Women and Child Development ). In 1993, however, she resigned from the ministerial post due to differences over the budget. In the following years she repeatedly and publicly attacked the leadership of the Congress Party because of what they considered to be too hesitant policy towards the communist parties, which are politically dominant in the state of West Bengal. Finally she was expelled from the Congress Party on December 22, 1997 and founded the West Bengal Trinamool Congress (WBTC) party in West Bengal in 1998, together with her supporters, who also came mostly from the Congress Party .
Before the parliamentary elections in 2004 , the regional organization of the Nationalist Congress Party in Meghalaya under Purno Agitok Sangma joined the Trinamool Congress, which then renamed itself the Nationalist Trinamool Congress . Sangma left the party again in 2005, along with his supporters.
The main political opponent of All India Trinamool Congress is the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which ruled West Bengal between 1977 and 2011 . Trinamool won the local elections in Kolkata in 2000, but lost control of the city back to the communists in 2005. The party achieved its first major success in the 2009 election for the All India Parliament , in which the party, now renamed All India Trinamool Congress, won 13.2 million votes (3.2% of all Indian votes) and 19 of the 42 West Bengal constituencies. In the coalition government formed afterwards under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh , Mamata Banerjee received the post of Minister of Railways ( Ministry of Railways ) - an office that she held as early as 1999-2001. In the parliamentary elections in West Bengal in 2011, the party won an absolute majority of the seats and Banerjee resigned from her ministerial office and became Chief Minister of West Bengal . After the party was still part of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) led by the Congress party in the 2009 election , AITC withdrew from the joint coalition government in September 2012 and did not join any of the major party coalitions in the 2014 all-India election . In this election, the AITC was able to repeat its great success of 2011, pushing the Communist Parties to second place in almost all constituencies and receiving 34 of the 42 parliamentary seats in West Bengal.
In the election to the parliament of West Bengal in April / May 2016, the AITC was able to further expand its share of votes and mandates. He won about 45% of the vote and a two-thirds majority of the seats. The opposing alliance of the Congress Party and left-wing parties ended up being far behind. In its election manifesto, the AITC had promised a “new Bengal” and a mixture of different social and economic policy measures (village development, advancement of women, health care, infrastructure, tourism, etc.). Mamata Banerjee described the coalition of communists and the Congress Party as “unprincipled and unethical”.
Election results
The following table shows the election results in the all-India parliamentary elections and in the elections in West Bengal. Of the current 543 constituencies for the Lok Sabha, 42 are in the state of West Bengal. Since September 2, 2016, the AITC has been recognized by the Indian Electoral Commission as a " National Party " because the AITC is in four states (West Bengal, Meghalaya , Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur ) has state party status .
| year | choice | be right | Share of votes † | Parliament seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 |
 Election for Lok Sabha in 1998
|
8,920,583 | 2.4% |
7/543 |
| 1999 |
Election for Lok Sabha 1999
|
9,363,785 | 2.5% |
8/543 |
| 2001 | Parliamentary election in West Bengal 2001 | 11,229,396 | 30.7% |
60/294 |
| 2004 |
Election for Lok Sabha 2004
|
8,071,867 | 2.1% |
2/543 |
| 2006 | Parliamentary election in West Bengal 2006 | 10,512,153 | 26.6% |
30/294 |
| 2009 |
Election for Lok Sabha 2009
|
13,321,553 | 3.2% |
19/543 |
| 2011 | Parliamentary election in West Bengal 2011 | 18,547,678 | 38.9% |
184/294 |
| 2014 |
Election for Lok Sabha 2014
|
20,316,262 | 3.8% |
34/543 |
| 2016 | Parliamentary election in West Bengal 2016 | 24,564,523 | 44.9% |
211/294 |
| 2019 |
Election for Lok Sabha 2019
|
24,929,330 | 4.1% |
22/543 |
† Share of votes in elections for Lok Sabha based on the whole of India, the AITC only ran for candidates in a few states.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mamata Mamata's - A marriage of convenience. The Tribune of India, March 15, 2004, accessed March 24, 2018 .
- ^ Sujoy Dhar: Trinamool Congress walks out of the UPA coalition. Reuter.com, September 19, 2012, accessed May 1, 2014 .
- ^ West Bengal Result Status. Indian Election Commission, May 19, 2016, accessed May 19, 2016 .
- ↑ Mamata Banerjee promises 'New Bengal' in TMC manifesto. The Indian express, March 18, 2016, accessed May 19, 2016 .
- ^ Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Indian Election Commission, accessed on May 19, 2016 (English, election results of all Indian elections to Lok Sabha and the parliaments of the states since independence).
- ^ Trinamool Congress becomes seventh national party of India. The New Indian Express, September 3, 2016, accessed September 11, 2016 .