Adhikari went to another event at the Science City auditorium on Saturday, where Nadda met the BJP rural poll winners and alleged victims of poll violence
The lawyer appearing for Abhishek told the High Court that the gherao will be symbolic and would have been held 100 metres away from the homes of the BJP leaders.
The decline in BJP s vote share in West Bengal s recent panchayat polls and the resurgence of the Left and Congress alliance pose challenges to the party s target of securing 35 Lok Sabha seats from the state in 2024. While the Bengal BJP maintained its main opposition position, the Left-Congress-ISF alliance doubled its vote share, posing a significant challenge.
Dismissing the BJP's claims, the TMC said that BJP leaders in the state are only trying to "raise their ratings in Delhi" by threatening a government that "enjoys mass support".
Saturday s events were in keeping with the state s history of violent rural elections including the 2003 panchayat polls which gained notoriety for its death toll of 76 during the course of the poll process, with more than 40 killed on the day of the elections.