Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chairman Jagat Prakash Nadda has said that the ground beneath the feet of West Bengal’s chief minister, Mamata Banerjee, is slipping and that they will ensure that they form the next government in the state. , since people have decided to say goodbye to her.
“The BJP, as a responsible party, has to make sure that we convert those sentiments into votes and for that, with all the attention and intention, we are working on the ground,” Nadda said in an interview with HT.
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West Bengal, where the BJP has gone from strength to strength, should go to the polls next year. In the 2019 national elections, the party’s share of votes rose to more than 40% from a mere 2% in the 2011 assembly polls. The BJP won 18 of West Bengal’s 42 Lok Sabha seats to emerge as the second largest party after Trinamool’s ruling Congress in the state. It currently has only 16 legislators in the 294-member West Bengal assembly.
Nadda rejected the view that the BJP is encouraging and benefiting from religious polarization in the state. He added that Banerjee has not lost support because of polarization, but because of “mismanagement, lack of compliance and the fraud of the people of the state.”
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