The All India Trinamool Congress is an Indian political party which is predominantly active in West Bengal. The party is led by current chief minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee. Following the 2019 general election, it is currently the fourth-largest party in the Lok Sabha with 20 seats. Since its inception the party has been at the forefront of the anti-communist movement in West Bengal.
Mamata Banerjee is an Indian politician who is serving as the 8th and current Chief Minister of West Bengal since 2011, the first woman to hold the office. She founded the All India Trinamool Congress party in 1998 after separating from the Indian National Congress, and became its first chairperson. She is often referred to as Didi
Politics in West Bengal is dominated by the following major political parties: the All India Trinamool Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), and the Indian National Congress. For many decades the state underwent bitter political violence.
Swapan Sadhan Bose, also known as Tutu Bose, is an Indian politician from All India Trinamool Congress who was a Member of the Parliament of India representing West Bengal in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament.
Mukul Roy is an Indian politician and national vice-president of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He had served as the 32nd Railway Minister of India. He is also a former member of the Rajya Sabha, representing West Bengal for two consecutive terms. He also served as a Minister of State in the Ministry of Shipping and later Ministry of Railways. He was formerly associated with the All India Trinamool Congress and Indian National Congress. On 26 September 2020, Roy was appointed as the National Vice-President of Bharatiya Janata Party.
Suvendu Adhikari is an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Nandigram. He is the current Leader of Opposition of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha after having nominated by 22 MLAs of BJP including Mukul Ro. He served as the minister of Transport, Irrigation and Water resource in West Bengal. He was a member of the 15th Lok Sabha and the 16th Lok Sabha (2014-2016), as an All India Trinamool Congress candidate, from Tamluk.
Gangajalghati was an assembly constituency in Bankura district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It was reserved for scheduled castes.
Raina is an assembly constituency in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes.Great revolutionary Rash Behari Bose was born (village-Subaldaha) in this Vidhan Sabha Constituency.
Nadanghat was an assembly constituency in what is now Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Kumargarm is an assembly constituency in Alipurduar district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The seat is reserved for scheduled tribes.
Suri is an assembly constituency in Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The Rajnagar ceases to exist from 2011. In 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Suri will be one of the 22 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.
Nabadwip is an assembly constituency in Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Pingla is an assembly constituency in Paschim Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Saltora is an assembly constituency in Bankura district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.
Chhatna is an assembly constituency in Bankura district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Bishnupur is an assembly constituency in Bankura district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Shankar Chakravorty, is a politician and an advocate from Balurghat, District-Dakshin Dinajpur, West Bengal, India. He was the Minister in Charge of P.W.D., Dept. of Cooperation, Dept. of Renewable Energy, Dept. of Correctional Administration in the Council of Ministers of the Government of West Bengal in various phases. He was an MLA, elected from the Balurghat constituency in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election. In 2016, he closely lost the same position. He is presently the Chairman of the Board of Directors of three state run PSUs namely Mackintosh Burn Ltd., Westinghouse Saxby Farmer Ltd. and Britannia Engineering Ltd.
Sujit Bose is an Indian politician who is a cabinet minister in Government of West Bengal under Mamata Banerjee ministry.Being a member of All India Trinamool Congress, he is also a member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Bidhannagar constituency since 2011. He is also a vice-chairman of South Dum Dum Municipality.
Banamali Hazra is an Indian politician. He was elected to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Bhatar in the 2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election as a member of the All India Trinamool Congress.
