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Supreme Court Hears Mamata Banerjee Challenge to TMC Symbol Freeze
The Supreme Court will hear Mamata Banerjee’s complaint about a decision by the Election Commission of India.
The complaint concerns the name and symbol of the All India Trinamool Congress.
The Election Commission temporarily stopped both rival groups from using them.
The groups are arguing over who should control the party identity.
One group is led by Mamata Banerjee, and the other is led by Arup Roy.
Until the disagreement is settled, the groups must use different symbols.
Banerjee’s group is using a footballer symbol.
The other group is using an envelope symbol.
The Supreme Court had earlier asked how long the Election Commission would need to decide the dispute.
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear Mamata Banerjee’s plea challenging the Election Commission of India’s interim freeze order.
The Election Commission froze the All India Trinamool Congress name and its ‘Flowers & Grass’ symbol on September 18.
The order followed a dispute between rival factions led by Mamata Banerjee and Arup Roy.
Both factions had nominated candidates for bypolls announced 10 days earlier by the Election Commission.
The Banerjee-led faction is using a footballer symbol, while the rebel faction is contesting with an envelope symbol.
- Who
- Mamata Banerjee, the Election Commission of India, and rival factions led by Mamata Banerjee and Arup Roy.
- What
- The Supreme Court will hear a plea challenging the interim freeze on the All India Trinamool Congress name and the ‘Flowers & Grass’ election symbol.
- Where
- The Supreme Court.
- When
- The hearing is scheduled for September 28, 2026; the Election Commission issued its freeze order on September 18.
- Why
- The freeze was issued amid a factional dispute over control of the All India Trinamool Congress.
Key facts
- Court hearing
- A three-judge Supreme Court bench will hear the plea.
- Bench
- Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana.
- Election Commission order
- The name and symbol were frozen on September 18.
- Frozen party name
- All India Trinamool Congress.
- Frozen symbol
- ‘Flowers & Grass’.
- Banerjee faction symbol
- A footballer symbol.
- Rebel faction symbol
- An envelope symbol.
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