Trinamool Congress

Trinamool Congress
Trinamool Congress
Abbreviation	AITC (official); TMC (alternatives)
Chairperson	Mamata Banerjee; (Chief Minister of West Bengal)
General Secretary	Abhishek Banerjee
Parliamentary Chairperson	Sudip Bandyopadhyay
Rajya Sabha Leader	Derek O' Brien
Lok Sabha Leader	Abhishek Banerjee
Founder	Mamata Banerjee
Founded	1 January 1998
Split from	Indian National Congress
Headquarters	30B Harish Chatterjee Street, Kolkata 700026
Newspaper	Jago Bangla (Bengali)
Student wing	Trinamool Chaatra Parishad
Youth wing	Trinamool Youth Congress
Women's wing	Trinamool Mahila Congress
Labour wing	Indian National Trinamool Trade Union Congress
Peasant's wing	Trinamool Kisan Khet Majdur Congress
Ideology	Bengali nationalism; Regionalism; Populism; Welfarism; Progressivism; Social liberalism; Secularism;
Political position	Centre;
Colours	Green
Slogan	Joy Bangla ; Khela Hobe (Electoral Slogan) ; Ma Mati Manush (Political Slogan)
ECI Status	State Party
Alliance	NDA (1998–2001; 2003–2006) ; UPA (2009–2012) ; I.N.D.I.A. (2023–present)
Seats in Rajya Sabha	12 / 245
Seats in Lok Sabha	28 / 543
Seats in State Legislative Assemblies	227 / 4,036 Indian states 222 / 294 (West Bengal) 5 / 60 (Meghalaya)
Number of states and union territories in government	1 / 31
Election symbol
Party flag
Website
	aitcofficial.org
	Politics of India; Political parties; Elections;

The Trinamool Congress (TMC; transl. Grassroots Congress), officially All India Trinamool Congress, is an Indian political party that is mainly influential in the state of West Bengal. It was founded by Mamata Banerjee on 1 January 1998 as a breakaway faction of the Indian National Congress and rapidly rose to prominence in the politics of West Bengal under her leadership. Presently, it is ruling the state of West Bengal beside being the third-largest party in India in terms of number of MPs just after the Bharatiya Janata Party and National Congress.

The party won a historic victory in the 2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election by ending the 34-year-long Left Front rule, world's longest democratically elected communist government. It has won a three-time majority in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly and has been the ruling party in West Bengal since 20 May 2011. AITC is led by Mamata Banerjee as the chairperson of the party.