Trinamul Congress leaders and workers on the foundation day of the party pledged to protect the pride of the nation, ensure development of Bengal and protect the democratic right of every citizen.
Trinamul Congress chairperson Miss Mamata Banerjee on this auspicious day said: “Trinamul family is full with the blessings of countless people and their prayer. With the good wishes of the people we will continue our fight against all evil. We will not bow down to the evil forces and their muscle flexing and continue to fight to protect and establish the rights of common people. I pay my respect to all workers and supporters of the Trinamul Congress family.”
Abhishek Banerjee, national general secretary of the party, said: “Mother soil and people are committed to ensure development of the state and the country. We salute to the untiring work, selfless sacrifice of the workers. Armed with fellow feelings and harmony let us fight with renewed effort.”
On 1 January, 1998 Miss Mamata Banerjee who was the president of state Youth Congress, floated Trinamul Congress after she realised that Congress will never launch any serious movement to oust the CPI-M from Bengal.
Trinamul Congress flags were hoisted in the party offices across the state. The workers vowed to put up a fight against the divisive forces and defeat the BJP in the 2026 Assembly election. Rallies were taken out in the morning in different areas. Trinamul Congress has taken programmes to make people aware of the schemes the state government has taken in the past 15 years.
Abhishek Banerjee will kick off his programme tomorrow with a meeting in Baruipur in South 24-Parganas. He will go to Thakurnagar, headquarters of the Matua community on 9 January.
After raising the party, she launched a series of movements to highlight the misrule of the CPI-M in Bengal.
She raised her voice when the CPI-M government forcibly took fertile land from the farmers to help the Tata Group to set up an automobile factory in Singur. The Tatas left Bengal. After becoming the Chief Minister, she continued her legal battle against the acquisition of land. Finally, the Supreme Court declared the acquisition as “unconstitutional and void.” She returned the land that had been acquired from the farmers.
In Nandigram, she lodged a movement against forcible acquisition of land to set up a chemical hub by the Salem group.
Her sustained movement finally dislodged the CPI-M from power in the 2011 Assembly election. In 2008 the CPI-M lost control over the zilla parishads in East Midnapore and South 24-Parganas in the panchayat election in 2008. In the Lok Sabha election, which was held in 2009, the Trinamul Congress got 18 seats. In 2010, it got control over the Kolkata Municipal Corporation and finally came to power in 2011.
After coming to power Trinamul Congress-led state government has taken 64 development schemes, of which Lakshmir Bhandar, Swasthya Sathi, Sabuj Sathi, Khadya Sathi deserve mention. Schemes like Students’ credit card, Kanyashree, Swami Vivekananda scholarship have helped the students to go ahead with higher studies.