Mamata faction of Trinamool Congress unveils new logo, looks to familiarise voters with ‘football player’ symbol

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Former West Bengal Chief Minister and a faction leader of the All India Trinamool Congress Mamata Banerjee. | Photo Credit: PTI

The Mamata Banerjee-led faction of the All India Trinamool Congress on Monday (September 21, 2026) unveiled a new logo featuring its interim election symbol — a football player — and asked its leaders and elected representatives to publicise it, as the party races to build a new electoral identity after losing its familiar name and flowers-and-grass symbol.

The logo places the football player at its centre, surrounded by the words ‘Mamata All India Trinamool Congress’ in white against a blue background. Saffron, white and green have also been incorporated into the design.

The exercise comes days after the Election Commission (EC) froze the use of the ‘All India Trinamool Congress’ name and its reserved flowers-and-grass symbol amid an escalating internal dispute over control of the party.

The electoral authority subsequently allotted separate interim identities to the two groups for the October 6 bypolls, with the Mamata faction getting ‘Mamata All India Trinamool Congress’ and the ‘football player’ symbol, while the rival faction led by Arup Roy was allotted ‘Democratic Trinamool Congress’ and the ‘envelope’ symbol.

With only a fortnight left for the Nandigram and Rejinagar bypolls , the Mamata camp is seeking to ensure that voters can connect the new symbol with the political identity they have traditionally associated with the Trinamool Congress.

Party sources said all office-bearers, leaders, workers and elected representatives have been asked to use their respective platforms to circulate the logo and familiarise voters with the new symbol.

The leaders from the Mamata camp began posting the logo on social media from Monday afternoon.

On September 17, the EC heard the rival claims over the Trinamool Congress and later ordered that neither faction would be permitted to use the party's existing name and symbol pending a substantive determination of the dispute.

The decision came on the last day of nominations for the bypolls, prompting the poll panel to ask the factions to suggest alternative names and free symbols so that the electoral process could proceed.

A day later, the Commission gave the two groups their temporary identities.

For the Mamata faction, the choice of name itself carries an unmistakable political message. "Mamata" has been inserted into the party’s interim identity, putting the leader’s name where the old organisational label had stood, while the football player symbol gives the faction a new visual marker to take to the electorate.

The new identities will face their first direct electoral test in Rejinagar, where the two rival Trinamool factions remain in the fray.