With its sights set on the crucial assembly elections in 2021, the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, which is also completing 10 years of its rule, would release its report card on Thursday.
Armed with the report card that would highlight the development activities undertaken by the Mamata Banerjee administration since the party came to power in 2011, TMC leaders and workers would reach around 10 million households in the coming days as part of one of the largest outreach programs launched by TMC.
“The main weapon of the TMC for the 2021 elections would be the development activities undertaken by the government in the last ten years. Each government department will prepare its own accounting book on what it has done in these years, the projects launched and the promises kept. The report card would highlight more than a dozen government programs, ”said a TMC senior minister.
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The ruling TMC has launched Bongodhhoni (Sound of Bengal), one of its biggest outreach programs before the polls. The state government has also launched a mass outreach program titled Duare Sarkar (government at the door) to highlight its development activities.
Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would be camped out at Diamond Harbor in South 24 Parganas, the constituency of TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee, who is also the prime minister’s nephew and heir apparent.
The national president of the BJP, JP Nadda, is on a two-day visit to the state. On Wednesday, he held a party outreach program at Bhowanipore in southern Kolkata, the home of Mamata Banerjee and a TMC stronghold.
“Nadda would hold at least two demonstrations in Diamond Harbor today. While the first would be with the BJP workers, the second would be with members of the fishing community, ”said a party leader.
Encouraged by its impressive progress in the 2019 elections, in which the BJP won 18 of the state’s 42 parliamentary seats, the party now hopes to replicate the performance in the West Bengal assembly in 2021.
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