Amit Shah West Bengal visit: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday took a jibe at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and said that the TMC chief may dream of making her nephew CM, but next chief minister will be from BJP. Addressing a 'Jan Sampark Samavesh' rally in Birbhum, Shah said that after BJP's win in 2024, none will dare attack Ram Navami rallies in Bengal.
The Home Minister also urged people to vote for BJP in 2024 general elections and said that BJP is the only way to free Bengal off terror. "...The only way to remove the crime of 'Didi-Bhatija' is BJP. The only way to free Bengal off terror is BJP. The only way to stop infiltration in Bengal is BJP...Give us 35 seats in 2024, there will be no need for 2025 (West Bengal poll); before 2025 Mamata did's govt will collapse," said Shah.
Next CM is going to be from BJP
"...Mamata didi, you might be dreaming that your nephew will become the CM after you. From here in Birbhum, I say that the next CM is going to be from BJP. The trailer has to be shown in 2024 (general elections)," he added.
The BJP workers presented a 'trishul' to Shah at 'Jan Sampark Samavesh' rally in Birbhum, West Bengal today. He also inaugurated the BJP district party office in Birbhum, West Bengal. Shah is on a two-day visit to the state. He will take stock of the organisational strength of the party in the state. The Home Minister is visiting the state ahead of the rural polls in the state, which is due next month, and the party seeks to strengthen its organisational machinery.
On Bengali New Year's Day on April 15 he will visit Dakshineswar Temple and offer puja. He will then return to New Delhi, he said. The ruling TMC declined to attach importance to Shah's visit.
TMC leader on Amit Shah's Bengal visit:
"As the rural poll in West Bengal is approaching, BJP leaders will come to the state more frequently. But it will not yield any result," TMC leader and state minister Partha Bhowmick said.
BJP was plagued by internal squabbles and defections after the 2021 assembly election. Former union minister Babul Supriyo, party MP Arjun Singh and six legislators, including national vice-president Mukul Roy, have switched to TMC since the poll.
Birbhum, where Shah is slated to hold a public meeting, is considered to be a stronghold of the ruling TMC. But political equations in the south Bengal district have changed in the last few months after CBI arrested Trinamool Congress district president Anubrata Mondal in the cattle smuggling case.
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Shah's programme in Bengal is part of BJP's 'Pravas' campaign to strengthen its organisation in 144 Lok Sabha seats in the country that it had lost by slender margins in the 2019 general election. The party had won 18 of the total Lok Sabha 42 seats in Bengal then.
The BJP leader said that Shah and BJP national president JP Nadda are slated to address 12 rallies each, covering 24 Lok Sabha seats in the state that the party had lost in the election that year. Nadda has already addressed two rallies in West Bengal as part of the Pravas campaign in January and February.
TMC steamrolled to power for the third consecutive term in the state in 2021 by winning 215 of the 292 seats to which polling was held, while the BJP bagged 77.
(With agencies inputs)
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