All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) is an Indian political party founded by Mamata Banerjee in 1998. In 2011, AITMC, in alliance with Indian National Congress and SUCI, it ended the 34-year Left Front Rule in West Bengal, coming to power in the state by winning 227 seats. AITMC secured 187 seats alone, enabling it to run the state without an alliance.
Mamata Banerjee was sworn in as the first woman Chief Minister of the State. She announced the return of 400 acres of land to Singur farmers as one of the first decisions. In 2014 Lok Sabha polls, AITMC won 34 out of 42 seats in Bengal. In, 2016, AITMC won the West Bengal Assembly elections, securing an overwhelming majority of 211 out of 293 seats. It is recognised as a national party by the Election Commission of India. In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, TMC secures only 22 seats.
In 2021, it wins the Vidhan Sabha elections for the third time, securing a landslide two-thirds majority winning 215 seats. Party leaders like Suvendu Adhikari and Mukul Roy had defected to BJP just before the assembly elections.
It becomes a key constituent of Congress-led INDIA bloc against the NDA in the run-up to the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
It could not gain majority in 2026 election. AITC party, the name and symbol of is frozen by Election Commission of India (ECI), after that Mamata All India Trinamool Congress gets recognized by ECI ahead of by-polls in West Bengal.
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