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 just after the BJP and INC.
Mamata Banerjee is an Indian politician who is serving as the eighth and current chief minister of the Indian state of West Bengal since 20 May 2011,the first woman to hold the office. Having served multiple times as a Union Cabinet Minister,Mamata Banerjee became the Chief Minister of West Bengal for the first time in 2011. She founded the All India Trinamool Congress in 1998 after separating from the Indian National Congress,and became its second chairperson later in 2001. She often refers to herself as Didi.
Mukul Roy is an Indian politician from West Bengal. He has also served as a Minister of State in the Shipping Ministry and later Ministry of Railways during the second UPA government. Before the creation of Trinamool Congress,he was a member of Indian National Congress. Between 2017 and 2021,Roy left Trinamool Congress to join Bharatiya Janata Party. In 2021,he left BJP and joined TMC.
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.
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 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.
The Saradha Group financial scandal was a major political scandal caused by the collapse of a Ponzi scheme run by Saradha Group,a consortium of over 200 private companies that was believed to be running collective investment schemes popularly but incorrectly referred to as chit funds in Eastern India.
Puber Kalom is an Indian Bengali language daily newspaper published in Kolkata,West Bengal. Its editor is Ahmed Hassan Imran who is a former member of Rajya Sabha from West Bengal.
Idris Ali was an Indian politician who was a Member of Parliament for the 16th Lok Sabha from Basirhat,West Bengal. He was elected in the 2014 Indian general election as an All India Trinamool Congress candidate.
Srinjoy Bose is the secretary of Mohun Bagan A.C. and one of the directors of RPSG Mohun Bagan Pvt. Ltd. He was a politician representing Trinamool Congress and was elected as a member of Rajya Sabha from West Bengal in 2011.
Dilip Ghosh is an Indian politician from West Bengal. He was the Member of Parliament representing the Medinipur constituency in Lok Sabha. He also served as one of the national vice presidents of Bharatiya Janata Party from 2021 to 2023. He served as the 9th president of the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Saayoni Ghosh is an Indian Bengali film and television actress currently serving as a Member of Parliament representing Jadavpur parliamentary constituency. She is also a singer and a politician. Her acting debut was with a telefilm Ichhe Dana,and her first appearance on the big screen was with a short role in the film Notobor Notout. She then shared the screen with some veteran actors in Raj Chakraborty's Shotru,and later played a carefree journalist role in Raj Chakraborty's daily serial Proloy Asche. She has played lead roles in the films Kanamachi,Antaraal,Ekla Cholo,Amar sahor,Bitnoon,Mayer Biye,Rajkahini. She came into limelight in politics in January 2021 after an FIR was lodged against her by Tathagata Roy for hurting Hindu sentiments. She joined Trinamool Congress on 24 February 2021.
The Narada sting operation was a sting operation carried out by Mathew Samuel targeting high-ranking officials and politicians of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC). It showed several politicians and a high-ranked police officer accepting cash bribes in exchange for providing unofficial favors to a company.
Didi Ke Bolo is an initiative started by the All India Trinamool Congress,that provides a platform for the people of West Bengal to directly lodge concerns or complaints to the Trinamool chairperson and state chief minister Mamata Banerjee. As of 13 August 2019,nearly 500,000 grievances were lodged using this platform.
The 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election was the 17th quinquennial legislative election held in West Bengal,to elect all 294 members of West Bengal Legislative Assembly. This electoral process of 292 seats unfolded between 27 March to 29 April 2021,taking place in eight phases. Voting for the two remaining constituencies was delayed to 30 September 2021.
Nandigram Vidhan Sabha constituency is an assembly constituency in Purba Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The General election to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal for 292 constituencies out of the 294 constituencies in West Bengal was held between 27 March to 29 April 2021 in eight phases. Voting for the two remaining constituencies was delayed and was scheduled to be held on 16 May 2021. Polling in Nandigram took place on 1 April.
Anubrata Mondal,also known as Kesto Mondal,is an Indian politician,who belongs to All India Trinamool Congress. He is known to be a close aide of Chief Minister of West Bengal,Mamata Banerjee. He is currently serving as President of Birbhum District Trinamool Congress after getting bail for cattle case from CBI Central Bureau of Investigation and ED Enforcement Directorate in lack of evidence from Tihar Jail. The National Investigation Agency also tried to nab him on national treasure smuggling but failed. Due to this his daughter Sukanya Mondal had also spent 16 months in Tihar but nothing could be proven and she was bailed out.
West Bengal School Service Recruitment Scam is an ongoing education SSC scam in West Bengal,India since 2022. The scam is being currently investigated jointly by Central Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement Directorate. The scam was revealed,following the arrest of Partha Chatterjee,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.
On 5 January 2024,a team of Enforcement Directorate officers visited the village of Sandeshkhali in West Bengal,India,to interrogate a local Trinamool Congress leader,Sheikh Shahjahan,about his involvement with the corruption scandal of the politician Jyotipriya Mallick. Mallick,a former minister with the Trinamool Congress,pled guilty for embezzling multiple crores from food rationing funds in October 2023,implicating Shahjahan. In January 2024,the ED investigated additional allegations of sexual assault and improper land acquisition against Shahjahan. In the resulting altercation,three ED officers were injured by local supporters of Shahjahan.
West Bengal cow smuggling scam is an ongoing Cattle theft in India scam going on from August 2022. The scam is currently investigated by Enforcement Directorate,Central Bureau of Investigation and National Investigation Agency jointly. The scam was revealed,following the arrest of prominent and senior leader of Trinamool Congress and president of Birbhum district Trinamool Congress,Anubrata Mondal,who is also known to be a close aide of the Chief Minister of West Bengal,Mamata Banerjee by the agencies.
