Kolkata: After shedding its nationwide celebration standing, the Trinamool Congress is contemplating authorized choices to problem the Election Commission’s determination, information company PTI quoted a celebration supply as saying. On Monday, the EC revoked the nationwide celebration standing of the TMC, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), and the Communist Party of India (CPI). “The party is looking into legal options to challenge the EC’s decision,” PTI quoted the TMC supply as saying on Monday. The Mamata Banerjee-led celebration didn’t reply publicly. Following the event, the opposition BJP mocked the TMC.
“TMC lost the national party status & will be recognised as a regional party. Didi’s aspiration to grow TMC find no place as people know TMC runs a most corrupt, full of appeasement & terror govt. Govt’s fall is also certain as people of WB will not tolerate this govt for long,” BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar mentioned in a tweet.
TMC misplaced the nationwide celebration standing & shall be recognised as a regional celebration.
Didi’s aspiration to develop TMC discover no place as folks know TMC runs a most corrupt, stuffed with appeasement & terror govt. Govt’s fall can be sure as folks of WB is not going to tolerate this govt for lengthy.
— Dr. Sukanta Majumdar (@DrSukantaBJP) April 10, 2023
In an order issued on Monday, the EC mentioned that NCP and TMC shall be recognised as state events in Nagaland and Meghalaya respectively, based mostly on their efficiency within the lately concluded meeting elections.
The TMC was fashioned on January 1, 1998, after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee left the Congress to kind her personal political celebration.
After two unsuccessful makes an attempt in 2001 and 2006, the celebration got here to energy by defeating the Left Front in 2011, using the crest of huge public outrage in opposition to the communists.
The celebration, lately, has tried to develop its footprint throughout the nation to pose a direct problem to the BJP within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. However, the efforts didn’t bear a lot fruit.
The BJP, Congress, CPI(M), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), National People’s Party (NPP) and the AAP at the moment are nationwide events.
