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Mamata Faction Unveils New 'Football Player' Logo for By-Elections
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Moneycontrol•21-09-2026, 19:24
Mamata Faction Unveils New 'Football Player' Logo for By-Elections
- •The Mamata Banerjee-led TMC faction introduced a new logo featuring a 'football player' as its interim election symbol, following the Election Commission's freeze on the original 'All India Trinamool Congress' name and 'flowers-and-grass' symbol.
- •The new logo prominently displays the football player, surrounded by 'Mamata All India Trinamool Congress' text, incorporating saffron, white, and green colors.
- •The Election Commission allotted 'Mamata All India Trinamool Congress' and the 'football player' symbol to Mamata's faction, while the rival Arup Roy faction received 'Democratic Trinamool Congress' and the 'envelope' symbol for the October 6 bypolls.
- •With bypolls in Nandigram and Rejinagar approaching, the Mamata camp is urgently working to familiarize voters with the new symbol, instructing all leaders and representatives to publicize it.
- •The Supreme Court has agreed to urgently hear Mamata Banerjee's plea challenging the Election Commission's freeze, but the political campaign continues as the faction aims to make the new symbol recognizable by October 6.
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The Election Commission allotted the interim name 'Mamata All India Trinamool Congress' and a 'football player' symbol to the Mamata Banerjee-led faction for the upcoming bypolls after freezing the original party identity.
The poll panel froze the use of the original 'All India Trinamool Congress' name and its flowers-and-grass symbol due to an escalating internal dispute between rival factions fighting for control of the party.
In Rejinagar, the two rival camps are directly contesting against each other using their newly assigned interim names and symbols. Conversely, in Nandigram, the Mamata faction withdrew its candidate, backed a Congress candidate instead, and is effectively out of the local race.
