The 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 from the Indian National Congress and rapidly rose to prominence in the politics of West Bengal under her leadership. Presently,it is ruling the state of West Bengal beside being the third-largest party in India in terms of number of MPs and MLAs,just after BJP and INC.
The West Bengal Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located in the B. B. D. Bagh area of Kolkata,the capital of the state. Members of the Legislative assembly are directly elected by the people. The legislative assembly comprises 294 Members of Legislative Assembly,all directly elected from single-seat constituencies. Its term is five years,unless sooner dissolved.
Sultan Ahmed was an Indian politician and the Union Minister of State for Tourism in the Manmohan Singh government. He was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha from Uluberia on a Trinamool Congress ticket. He had previously been a 2-time Congress MLA for Entally.
Suvendu Adhikari is an Indian politician from Bharatiya Janata Party who is the current Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly since 2021 and a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Nandigram Assembly constituency since 2021 and from Contai South from 2006 to 2009. He previously served as the Minister of Transport from 2016 to 2020,Irrigation and Water resource from 2018 to 2020 in the Government of West Bengal. He was also a member of Lok Sabha from Tamluk from 2009 to 2016 and the chairperson of Jute Corporation of India from 2020 to 2021. He was a forner member of the Trinamool Congress from 1998 to 2020 and Indian National Congress from 1995 to 1998. He is the son of Sisir Adhikari,Member of Parliament and former Union Minister of State for Rural Development in the Manmohan Singh government.
Sovan Chatterjee is an Indian politician. He is a former member of Indian National Congress,All India Trinamool Congress,and the Bharatiya Janata Party. He served as the Mayor of the city of Kolkata,the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Chatterjee served as a Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) councilor since 1985. In 2019,he joined Bharatiya Janata Party,and left in 2021.
Ashok Bhattacharya is an Indian politician and the former mayor of Siliguri Municipal Corporation. He is a member of Communist Party of India (Marxist). He is a prominent leader of CPI(M) in the northern region of West Bengal. He was the Minister of Urban Development and Municipal Affairs in the Government of West Bengal for three consecutive terms (1996–2011).
Kasba Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Subrata Mukherjee was an Indian politician who was cabinet minister of the government of West Bengal and sitting member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly. He was a member of All India Trinamool Congress. He was also the 35th Mayor of Kolkata from 2000 to 2005.
Sovandeb Chattopadhyay is a veteran Indian politician representing All India Trinamool Congress and is the first elected MLA of the party. He was the founder president of INTTUC,the labour wing of his party Trinamool Congress.
Hashim Abdul Halim was an Indian communist and politician who was speaker of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 2011.
Firhad Hakim is an Indian politician serving as the current and 38th Mayor of Kolkata. He is also serving as Cabinet Minister of Urban Development and Municipal Affairs and Housing,Government of West Bengal. He is a MLA of the All India Trinamool Congress party from Kolkata Port.
Madan Mitra is an Indian politician,actor from West Bengal. Madan Mitra started his career with party Indian National Congress. He held many positions of Indian Youth Congress,the party's youth wing. In 1998,he joined All India Trinamool Congress party,founded by his colleague Mamata Banerjee,and his movie debut was in the 2023 Bengali film Oh! Lovely. In 2011,he was elected to the legislative assembly and became a state minister. He was arrested for the Sarada chit fund conspiracy case and got bail after 22 months.
Javed Khan is the name of:
The partial list of political families of West Bengal state of India.
Saumitra Khan is an Indian politician representing the Bishnupur constituency of West Bengal in the Lok Sabha since 2014. He joined Bharatiya Janata Party in 2019 and currently serves as the president of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha West Bengal.
Sabyasachi Dutta is an Indian politician from West Bengal. He belongs to the All India Trinamool Congress and was MLA from Rajarhat New Town Vidhan Sabha Constituency. He has also served as the first Mayor of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation from 2015 to 2019. In 2019,he joined BJP.
Baishali Dalmiya is the director of the construction company M L Dalmiya &Co. Ltd. She is a former member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. From 2016 to April 2021 she represented the Bally Assembly Constituency. She is daughter of Indian cricket administrator and businessman Jagmohan Dalmiya.
Debasish Kumar is an Indian politician member of All India Trinamool Congress. He is an MLA,elected from the Rashbehari constituency in the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election. He was the ex-Mayor in Council of Kolkata Municipal Corporation and the present Member Board of Administrators of Kolkata Municipal Corporation. Debasish Kumar is also the District President,South Kolkata District of All India Trinamool Congress.
The 2021 Kolkata Municipal Corporation election was held on 19 December 2021 to elect 144 members of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) which governs Kolkata,the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. A total of 40,48,357 electors were eligible to vote in the election. The results were announced on 21 December.
Shatarup Ghosh is an Indian politician from West Bengal belonging to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM). He had formerly served as the All India Joint Secretary of Students' Federation of India (SFI),the students wing of CPIM and was member of its central secretariat. Then he became a member of the state committee secretariat of Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI),which is the youth wing of CPIM. He was also inducted into West Bengal state committee of CPIM in the 23rd Party conference of state in March 2022 and currently a member of it.
