TMC drops 'Congress' from logo, now only Trinamool
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress has introduced its new logo and dropped 'Congress' from it.
Though the party has been registered as the All India Trinamool Congress with the Election Commission, party supremo thought that after 21 years of official separation from the Congress, it was high-time to drop the word.
The new logo with a new catch line has been introduced recently. The new logo has Trinamool written in green with twin flowers and blue background. The catch line is Amar, Apnar Banglar (Mine, Yours and for Bengal). While addressing the media after publishing the list of candidates for the ensuing Lok Sabha elections, the Trinamool Congress supremo had mentioned about the change in the logo and said "at times one has to take suggestion from the younger generation." The party nominees are putting up the new logo in the wall graffiti.
On January 1, 1998, Mamata Banerjee set up the Trinamool Congress after separating from the Congress. She thought that Congress would never protest against the misrule of the CPI(M) government and floated her own party. She had named the party as Trinamool Congress as she thought that Congress had neglected the people who belonged to the grassroots. She had sketched the logo having "two flowers and grass." After almost two decades, the Trinamool supremo thought that time had come when the party should drop the name 'Congress'. It was learnt that Abhishek Banerjee had helped her to make the new logo.
After Indira Gandhi who had floated a new party and named it Congress (I), Mamata Banerjee is the only successful leader whose party has become bigger than the Congress in Bengal.
After floating Congress (I), Gandhi introduced "Cow and Calf" coming out of the old Congress logo of two bullocks. Later in 1977, she introduced another logo — the "hand" — which is still the logo of the Congress.
Political experts said as TMC has become significant in national politics in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, it has decided to drop 'Congress' from the logo.
Over the years, through several ups and downs, Trinamool has gained overwhelming support from the people.
