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 fourth-largest party in India in terms of number of MPs just after the BJP and INC.
Arvind Kejriwal is an Indian politician,activist and former bureaucrat,who is serving as the 7th and current Chief Minister of Delhi since 2015,after his first term in the post from 2013 to 2014. He is also the national convener of the Aam Aadmi Party since 2012. He has represented the New Delhi constituency in the Delhi Legislative Assembly since 2015 and from 2013 to 2014.
Politics in West Bengal is dominated by the following major political parties:the All India Trinamool Congress,the Communist Party of India (Marxist),the Bharatiya Janata Party,and the Indian National Congress. For many decades,the state underwent gruesome and terrible political violence. Since the 2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election,it has been governed by the Trinamool Congress party. Previously,it was ruled by Left Front led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) for over three decades.
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 he again left BJP and joined AITC.
Abhishek Banerjee is an Indian Politician. He is a member of the All India Trinamool Congress and he is currently serving as a Member of Parliament,Diamond Harbour,South 24 Parganas,West Bengal since 2014. Banerjee has also been the President of Trinamool Youth Congress since 2011,the youth wing of the Trinamool Congress,currently in power in West Bengal.
Sanjay Singh is an Indian activist,national spokesman for Aam Aadmi Party,a member of the Rajya Sabha from Delhi and a accused criminal. In October 2023,he was arrested by Enforcement Directorate for his role in the Delhi Liquor Scam. After 6 months of custody,he was released on bail by Supreme Court.
Kunal Ghosh is an Indian politician. He is a member of the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) and a former member of the Parliament of India,representing West Bengal in the Rajya Sabha.
Dr Kanwar Deep Singh,also known as K. D. Singh,is an Indian businessman turned politician and Member of Parliament (MP),Rajya Sabha representing the All India Trinamool Congress,but first elected to the Indian parliament as a nominee of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha. He is the founder and the former chairman of the Indian business group called Turbo Industries,whose name was changed and rebranded as the Alchemist Group in 2004. He was elected to lead the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) between 2013 and 2014.
Sushmita Dev is an Indian politician and member of Rajya Sabha from West Bengal,and belongs to the All India Trinamool Congress. Previously,she was elected to the Lok Sabha,lower house of the Parliament of India from Silchar,Assam in the 2014 Indian general election as a member of the Indian National Congress. She is the former president of All India Mahila Congress. She lost the 2019 Lok Sabha Election to BJP candidate Rajdeep Roy,which led her to resign from Indian National Congress and to join the All India Trinamool Congress in 2021.
Vipul Aggarwal is a 2001 batch Indian Police Service Officer from the Gujarat Cadre. He has recently been appointed as the Principal Commissioner of the Delhi Development Authority. Before this new role,he served as the Joint Secretary in the Department of Health &Family Welfare. Prior to this,he also served as the Deputy CEO of the National Health Authority,a government agency responsible for implementing healthcare schemes in India,from February 2020 to August 2022. During his tenure,he played a pivotal role in the policy formulation and implementation of the world's largest health assurance scheme,Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana,which provided coverage to an estimated 540 million Indian citizens.
Ripun Bora is an Indian politician and leader of the All India Trinamool Congress party from Assam since 2022. He is serving as President of the Assam Trinamool Congress since 2022. He was the President of Assam Pradesh Congress Committee from 2016 to 2021,Member of Rajya Sabha for Assam from 2016 to 2022. Bora also served as the Minister of Education,Government of Assam. He was a member of the Indian National Congress till 2022.
Venumbaka Vijayasai Reddy is a Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha;Parliamentary Party Leader for the YSR Congress Party;The National General Secretary of YSR Congress Party. He is a Chartered Accountant by profession.
Mahua Moitra is an Indian politician and former investment banker. She won the 2019 Indian general election as an All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) party candidate from Krishnanagar and served as a Member of Parliament,Lok Sabha from 2019 to 2023 until being expelled. She was re-elected to parliament in the 2024 Indian general election.
Jignesh Mevani is an Indian politician,lawyer,activist and former journalist serving as the representative of the Vadgam constituency in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly since 2017. He is a member of the Indian National Congress party. He is the convener of the Rashtriya Dalit Adhikar Manch (RDAM).
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.
The 2021 Tripura riots happened in the eponymous state of north-eastern India.
Anubrata Mondal,also popularly 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. He was also the Chairman of Tarapith Development Authority until 2020.
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.
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.
