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The Election Commission of India, in an interim order, barred both rival factions of the Trinamool Congress, led by Mamata Banerjee and Ritabrata Banerjee, from using the party's name and its twin flowers and grass symbol for the 6 October bypolls in West Bengal's Nandigram and Rejinagar and Assam's Nagaon constituencies. Invoking Para 15 of the Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 1968, the Commission held that with an election imminent, it could not immediately determine which group represented the genuine party, and allotted the Mamata Banerjee faction the name Mamata All India Trinamool Congress with a football player symbol, and the Ritabrata Banerjee faction the name Democratic Trinamool Congress with an envelope symbol. The Mamata Banerjee faction has since moved the Supreme Court against the freeze, while the split traces back to a rebellion after the party's defeat in the West Bengal Assembly election earlier this year.