New Delhi: To boost the BJP’s preparations for next year’s West Bengal Assembly polls, Union Minister and senior party leader Amit Shah will be on a two-day visit to the state from Thursday. In fact Amit Shah has already arrived and staying at a hotel here. The visit will officially start from Thursday. During his programme in West Bengal, Shah will have lunch with tribal and refugee families, the party’s national media in-charge Anil Baluni said Wednesday.
Sharing details of Shah’s visit, Baluni said the party’s former president will hold number of meetings in Bankura and Kolkata with booth workers, influencers and representatives of different communities.
Shah will visit Bankura to meet party workers November 5 and leaders from the different sections of the society. The party workers from two zones, Rarh and Hooghly-Midnapore, covering over 70 assembly seats from the southern region of West Bengal, will attend the meeting. He will have lunch at a tribal household in Chaturdhi village of Bankura district.
Shah will hold a number of meetings in the state capital Friday. Office-bearers from more than 80 Assembly constituencies from Nabadwip in south central Bengal and Kolkata region will be present. He will also visit Friday the Dakshineswar Kali Temple and later have lunch at a refugee household in Gauranganagar area in this city. Shah is also slated to have a meeting with representatives of different communities later in the day, Bulani said.
The BJP’s West Bengal unit general secretary Locket Chatterjee had Tuesday said, “There is excitement in workers across Bengal as Amit Shahji is coming to the state. His arrival and his advice will boost the party’s preparedness for the 2021 Assembly polls in West Bengal.”
Sources in the party said Shah will meet party workers and leaders mainly from south and south-western region of the state, as BJP still has a lot of ground to gain in these parts compared to the north, from where it has 12 MPs out of its total tally of 18.
By winning 18 Lok Sabha seats out of the total 42 in West Bengal in 2019 general elections, the BJP has emerged as the main challenger for the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal.