Home Minister Amit Shah arrived in West Bengal on Thursday on a two-day visit after the 2021 state assembly elections, in which the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) won 213 out of 294 seats.
Shah will participate in programs including laying the foundation stone of Maitri Museum and Prahari Sammelan at BOP Haridaspur.
West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar had yesterday said that Shah would reach Kolkata in the morning and visit the BSF camp in North 24 Parganas. On Friday, he will visit the Indo-Bangladesh border area of three bighas, where he is scheduled to interact with BSF personnel. The Union Minister will hold a meeting with the office bearers at the state BJP headquarters after attending a program at Victoria Memorial Hall in Kolkata on Friday.
In Siliguri, Amit Shah will garland the statues of the great Gorkha mountaineer Tenzing Norgay and Cooch Behar’s Rajbanshi leader Thakur Panchanan Barma. He will address the public meeting. Later in the evening, he will leave for Darjeeling,” said a senior BJP leader from the state.
“He will reach Kolkata the next day, hold a meeting with the state leadership and look into the various issues being faced by the state unit,” the BJP leader said. In Kolkata, top leaders are set to attend an event to celebrate the inscription of ‘Durga Puja’ in the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage.
Shah will address a rally at New Jalpaiguri Railway Sports Ground. The TMC had recently had a clean sweep in civic polls, winning 102 out of 108 municipalities, giving a boost to the party in north Bengal, where the BJP won the maximum number of seats in the 2019 parliamentary elections.
In South Bengal, the Matua people have been demanding the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), and are expected to raise their concerns with Shah.
BJP Bengal had to face defeat in the by-elections held in Ballygunge assembly seat and Asansol Lok Sabha constituency on April 16. Both the seats were won by TMC’s Babul Supriyo and actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha.
With the defeat in Asansol, the BJP’s Lok Sabha strength in West Bengal has come down from 18 to 17.
A Hindustan Times report said that West Bengal BJP leaders have also demanded the replacement of General Secretary (Organisation) Amitabh Chakraborty.
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