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The BJP has planned over 2,000 street corner meetings in and around Kolkata.
After the first four phases of Assembly elections in West Bengal, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has reportedly planned to tweak its campaigning strategy. Adding a completely new dimension to campaigning for the remaining four phases of polls, the saffron party will be holding potho sabhas (street corner meetings) focusing on 40 constituencies spread across the greater Kolkata region.Â
The new campaign plan will be in addition to the already scheduled mega rallies and roadshows, sources within the BJP said.Â
Reason behind holding
The potho sabha campaign will be launched senior party leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on April 13 where he will address
Several BJP members join TMC ahead of third phase assembly polls in West Bengal
ANI | Apr 5, 2021, 22:26 IST
KOLKATA: In the midst of assembly election fever in West Bengal, several members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) joined the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Monday.
The ex-BJP members were Priyansu Pandey, Rabi Singh, Surojit Biswas and Akash Mallah, who joined the TMC in the presence of state minister Purnendu Basu and MP Dola Sen at Trinamool Bhavan today. Having observed the work Mamata Banerjee has done in the state, these members will hold the TMC flag today. We are happy to welcome them to our party. TMC is like an ocean. You can see that people from different areas have joined the TMC. There is no doubt that the TMC government will be formed again in the state, said Basu at the press conference.
Amid voting in Bengal, incidents of violence were reported in some areas. A BJP polling agent was allegedly thrashed by TMC workers, while party leader Tanmay Ghosh's car was vandalised in Keshpur.
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The constituency is under heavy security cover with prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPC being clamped in view of the high-voltage contest between CM Mamata Banerjee and her former aide, Suvendu Adhikari.
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Suvendu Adhikari (R) leaves on a motorbike after casting his vote at a polling station during Phase 2 of West Bengal s legislative election in Nandigram on April 1, 2021. | Photo Credit:
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The constituency is under heavy security cover with prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPC being clamped in view of the high-voltage contest between CM Mamata Banerjee and her former aide, Suvendu Adhikari.
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Empty chairs have, indeed, turned into a talk of the town in poll-bound West Bengal, with political observers asking if the BJP, which hopes to topple the Mamata Banerjee regime, has lost the momentum it was enjoying.