Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to camp in West Bengal, bound for the polls, every month beginning January 2021 to bolster the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) campaign in the run-up to the crucial assembly elections. , one of the main leaders of the party’s Bengal unit. has said.
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister is scheduled to head virtually to the Visva-Bharati University centennial celebrations, created by Rabindranath Tagore, in West Bengal’s Santiniketan at 11am on Thursday.
“He (Modi) would come every month. The dates have not yet been set, ”Dilip Ghosh, chairman of the West Bengal BJP told the media on Wednesday, while responding to a question on whether the prime minister is expected in February.
With less than five months to go until the Bengal assembly elections, the union’s Home Secretary Amit Shah and the BJP National Chairman JP Nadda have been touring the state every month.
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In December, while Nadda had visited the state in the second week, Shah arrived on a two-day tour in the third week. Meanwhile, other senior party leaders from across India are also arriving.
BJP National Chairman of Mahila Morcha Vanathi Srinivasan, Union Cabinet Minister Prahlad Singh Patel and Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Chandra Maurya were in West Bengal earlier this week attending the party’s outreach programs, addressing to organizational meetings and participating in protests.
The state’s ruling Trinamool Congress has investigated the prime minister’s possible tours of the state.
“You can come every day. And that? This shows that he has fewer tasks on his hands, ”Partha Chatterjee, state education minister and TMC secretary general, told the media.
Encouraged by its impressive advances in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, where the party won 18 out of 42 seats, the BJP has set itself the goal of winning more than 200 seats in the 294-seat legislative assembly this time.
The party is assembling its largest electoral machine in the eastern state and as part of it, several BJP leaders will come to Bengal from Delhi and other states to work with the local unit for the elections.
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