TMC Seeks Legal Options To Challenge EC's Decision Of Withdrawing National Party Status

On Monday, the Election Commission revoked the national party status of the Trinamool Congress, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), and Communist Party of India (CPI).

The Election Commission on Monday revoked revoked the national party status of the Trinamool Congress

New Delhi: The Trinamool Congress is considering legal options to challenge the decision of the Election Commission after it withdrew the national party status of the TMC, a party source said, as per PTI.

On Monday, the Election Commission revoked the national party status of the Trinamool Congress, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), and Communist Party of India (CPI).

"The party is exploring legal options to challenge this decision by EC," a TMC source said.

The Mamata Banerjee-led party did not issue any official reaction.

Mocking TMC following the development, BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar tweeted, "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." 

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.

— Dr. Sukanta Majumdar (@DrSukantaBJP) April 10, 2023

In an order issued on Monday, the EC said that NCP and TMC will be recognised as state parties in Nagaland and Meghalaya respectively, based on their performance in the recently concluded assembly elections.

On January 1, 1998, the TMC was formed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, after her departure from the Congress party to establish her own political party.

After two unsuccessful attempts in 2001 and 2006, the party came to power by defeating the Left Front in 2011, riding the crest of massive public outrage against the communists.

The party, in recent years, has tried to expand its footprint across the country to pose a direct challenge to the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. However, the efforts did not bear much fruit.

The BJP, Congress, CPI(M), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), National People's Party (NPP), and the AAP are now national parties.