New Delhi: Twenty-one years after officially separating from the Congress, the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC has removed the grand old party’s name from its logo.
The new logo has only Trinamool written in green with twin flowers and blue background. It has been in use for a week now, party sources said, here Saturday.
It was way back in 1998 that present West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee broke away from the Congress and formed the TMC over differences of opinion on dealing with the then ruling CPI(M).
“TMC is called Trinamool and after 21 years, it was time for change. So we have decided to drop the Congress from our name,” a party leader said. He however, could not say whether the abbreviated name of the party would continued to be ‘TMC’ or will just be changed to ‘TM’
The Congress name has been dropped from party banners, posters and all communication material. Party sources, however said that it will remain registered with the Election Commission as Trinamool Congress.
The official Facebook and Twitter pages of the party, the CM, her nephew Abhishek Banerjee, and Trinamool’s leader in the Rajya Sabha Derek O’ Brien already have the new logo.
PTI