All India Trinamool Congress

All India Trinamool Congress ( Bengali: সর্বভারতীয় তৃণমূল কংগ্রেস, sarbabhāratīẏa tṛṇamūl kaṃgres; German: Total Indian grass root Congress ) is a political party in the Indian state of West Bengal. It was founded in 1997 by Mamata Banerjee and other former supporters of the Congress party.

History

The party founder Mamata Banerjee started her political career in West Bengal, first in the Congress Party. In 1991, she was in the PV Narasimha Rao government of Prime Minister for Human Resource Development, Youth and Sports, and Women and Child Development ( Union Minister of State for Human Resources Development, Youth Affairs and Sports, and Women and Child Development ). 1993 but resigned due to differences over the budget from the ministerial post. In the following years she took the leadership of the Congress Party because of those in their view, a hesitant policy toward the politically dominant in the state of West Bengal Communist parties repeatedly publicly sharp. Finally, she was expelled from the Congress party on 22 December 1997 and, together with their followers, which also largely came from the Congress Party in West Bengal Trinamool Congress party.

The main political opponents of All India Trinamool Congress is in West Bengal since 1977 continuously ruling Communist Party of India ( Marxist). Trinamool won the local elections in Kolkata in 2000, the control of the city in 2005 but lost again to the Communists. The greatest success was the election of the pan- Indian Parliament in 2009, when the now renamed All India Trinamool Congress Party won 13.2 million votes ( 3.2% of the total Indian votes) and 19 of the 42 West Bengal constituencies. In the then formed coalition government under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Mamata Banerjee was awarded the post of Railway Minister ( Ministry of Railways ) - a post which she held from 1999 to 2001 already.