ABOUT THE PARTY:-
Mamata Banerjee had carried out numerous movements in the interest of the people over a time period but simultaneously she was realizing that to take her movement ahead she needed a separate platform to raise her voice against the barbaric rule of the CPI(M). Being with the Congress party was becoming a hindrance. It was this idea and need which gave birth to the Trinamool Congress on January 1, 1998.The time she chose was the end of 11th Lok Sabha and beginning of 12th Lok Sabha. As a politician of much experience and stature, she understood that it was the right time to launch the party and feel the pulses of the electorates as people was in all admiration for her as they saw her work.
Trinamool Congress was established on January 1, 1998. "A silent revolution is taking place in West Bengal. The people are on the verge of writing history ... A new epoch will start, said Chairperson Mamata Banerjee. On that day of inception of Trinamool Congress, Mamata Banerjee sketched the logo of the party which signifies grass root (two saplings on the grass). She thought if the Election Commission approves the logo then she will achieve two goals, one the launch of her party and simultaneously taking the philosophy of the party and explain to the people her deep thought behind the logo, which was the message of secularism, "ek e brinte duti kusum, Hindu Musalman, ekjon tar noyonmoni onno ti tar pran" (two buds on the tree, Hindu and Muslim. If one of them is the eye then the other is life). Election Commission did approve the logo but had also issued a stricture which read if the Trinamool Congress failed to get six-percentage of votes in the 12th Lok Sabha election then the pre-symbol will be cancelled. Trinamool Congress well passed the cut off percentage and the party was born.
This was a challenge for any political party as it was not an easy to go to people with a new party and ask for their valuable vote. On that day Mamata Banerjee made a conviction and went to people and said that if they elect her party in the elections, she will stand beside the people till her last breath. The people of this state did keep her trust and faith. That day the people of Kolkata(S) elected her and send her to Parliament. Since that day onwards, the people of Kolkata(S) have always stood beside Mamata Banerjee and she too kept her promise and stood beside the people in all situations.
Mamata Banerjee struggle phase is unending and has faced strong opposition from her rivals but nothing could deter her from her during these 14-long-years from her conviction of standing beside the people. During these long years people have seen her struggle with CPI(M) and being manhandled but never did she run away from the field showing her back.
MAA ,MATI,MANUSH:-
How is it that a fallen
people can restore its greatness and days of glory? How is it that
a people once known for its grandeur of being and supernal
achievements - from pure material riches to the highest of
spiritual realization and wisdom - can hope to revive from its
present state of inertia and confusion? The road to redemption does
not lie in belittling our past, or in blindly imitating a vision
and view of life that is alien to our temper and natural mode of
being. The question then that we can pose ourselves is: what is it
that precisely describes our uniqueness and captures the essence of
our Indian-ness? It is that we do not consider our nation, our land
of abode as dead matter. We consider it to be a living Being, we
consider Her to be “Ma” - our beloved Mother. And we the people of
that land are Her living children.
The great
period of struggle that helped us throw away the yoke of foreign
rule was inspired by this vision and experience of our nation. And
dear to our hearts and lips was the war cry Vande Mataram. We
offered ourselves completely and without reserve, to the service of
our Mother – fought hand in hand and treated all of Her children as
our brothers and sisters, felt one with every member of this great
Family. Whatever divisions there were, in the name of religion,
caste, creed or dogma was erased and effaced from our minds and
hearts as soon as we became alive and conscious to this great
vision. And all of us collaborated – whether it was a Mangal
Pandey, Bahadur Shah Zafar or Birsa Munda, Rani Lakshmibai, Subhash
Chandra Bose, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bhagat Singh or Subramanya
Bharathy – we the children of India came together from the far
corners and fought as One Nation and One Family. We forgot all
differences and divisions, we gave up all our pettiness and narrow
self interest and worked together to free our Mother from the
shackles of servitude and bondage.
AGARTALA, Feb 21 – Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will kick-start the party’s Lok Sabha campaign at the Vivekananda Stadium here on February 25. The election rally will begin at 1 pm in which Mamata will be the main speaker. Trinamool Congress general secretary Mukul Roy will also be present, said Tripura Trinamool Congress chairman Ratan Chakraborty.
Speaking to reporters at the party’s camp office at Ramnagar here on Saturday, the former Minister said the party supremo would leave the State for Guwahati on the same day. Calling upon the people to join the election rally, Chakraborty said that Mamata Banerjee had been able to topple the 34-year-old Marxist citadel in West Bengal. “She can do the same thing if the people of the State support the Trinamool Congress in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections,” he said.
Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will kick-start the party’s Lok Sabha campaign at the Vivekananda Stadium here on February 25. The election rally will begin at 1 pm in which Mamata will be the main speaker. Trinamool Congress general secretary Mukul Roy will also be present, said Tripura Trinamool Congress chairman Ratan Chakraborty.
