Led by Rajnath Singh, as many as 40 national leaders and ministers will be coming to the state from April 6.
Buoyed by the success in Uttar Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s next target is to gain grounds in West Bengal and for that they intend to leave no stone unturned right, from the panchayat elections next year to the assembly elections in 2021.
Led by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, as many as 40 national leaders and ministers will be coming to the state, beginning April 6, to hold meetings at all the 42 Lok Sabha constituencies. In the first meeting, the BJP leaders will come out all guns blazing at the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) on the Narada sting operation issue.
“Other than the PM, party national president and all the national leaders will come over. Each of the Central leaders would visit one of the Lok Sabha constituency of Bengal, talking about the Central welfare schemes on the one hand and the prevailing corrupt practices here on the other,” said Sayantan Basu, the party’s state secretary.
The visit of the leaders is scheduled between April 6 and 14. BJP’s national executive meeting will take place in Delhi on April 15 and 16, where the party’s roadmap will be explained by Narendra Modi and party national president Amit Shah.
Sources said that while Rajnath Singh will hold meetings in south Kolkata, Union textile minister Smriti Irani will address rallies in north Kolkata. One of the objectives of the visit is to boost the morale of the party workers for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
“They will come over to motivate workers. We will try to establish ourselves as the major Opposition in the forthcoming Panchayat elections and later put up a tough fight in the Lok Sabha polls in 2019. If all goes well we will pull off the 2021 Assembly elections successfully,” said BJP state president Dilip Ghosh.
Referring to the BJP leaders' upcoming visit, state education minister Dr Partha Chatterjee, after a core committee meeting on Saturday, said, “Why 40? They can come in 400. People in Bengal have rested their trust in Mamata Banerjee and that will remain. These don’t bother us,” Dr Chatterjee said.
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