All India Trinamool Congress Removes ‘Congress’ From Its Logo

Kolkata: West Bengal’s ruling All India Trinamool Congress has dropped the ‘Congress’ from its new logo earlier this month and added dollops of blue, white and green colour to it besides giving it a catchy slogan in a bid to make the party one with the people of the eastern state. Observers said it could also be Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s way of distancing her party completely from the Indian National Congress. The Trinamool was formed on January 1, 1998, by Banerjee who came out of the Congress complaining that it was “hand-in-glove with the CPI-M-led Left Front” then in power in Bengal. Thereafter, Banerjee and her new party went hammer and tongs at the CPI-M for over a decade and finally managed to ride to power by allying with the Congress and defeating the Left Front in the 2011 Assembly polls.

All these years, Banerjee never shied away from harping on her Congress past, and instead repeatedly projected her party as the “real Congress”. The logo has used a blue-white colour combination in a big way surrounding the party’s twin flower symbol. There is also a very careful use of green colour in composing the font of the word ‘Trinamool’. (IANS)

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