History
Formation of the party
Mamata Banerjee was expelled from Indian National Congress on 22 December 1997. She formed her own party, the "Trinamool Congress", which was registered with the
Election Commission of India during mid-December, 1997. The Election Commission alloted to the party an exclusive symbol of
Jora Ghas Phul, which symbolizes down-trodden grass-root flowers.
Performance in elections
In 1998, just after formation, Trinamool Congress started getting huge response in West Bengal. Specially Congress workers and even Left workers joined the newly formed party. In the 1998 Lok Sabha poll, TMC won 7 seats.
[4] One more Lok Sabha election was held just in 1999, in which Trinamool Congress managed to win 8 seats with BJP, thus increasing the tally by one.
[5] In 2000, TMC won one important municipality election, Kolkata Municipal Corporation Election. In 2001 Bidhan Sabha election, TMC managed to win 60 seats with congress(I).
[6] In 2004 Lok Sabha election, TMC performed worst and managed to win only 1 seat with BJP .
[7] In 2006 Bidhan Sabha election, TMC won 30 seats with BJP.
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