The announcement comes days after Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP national president J P Nadda visited the state and held several organisational meetings with the West Bengal unit of the party and formed the election committee.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with BJP National President JP Nadda, Home Minister Amit Shah and others during the BJP election committee meeting. (Photo | PTI)
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NEW DELHI: The BJP on Thursday is learnt to have finalised candidates for the first few phases of Assembly elections in Assam and West Bengal, with fresh faces in the former and turncoats in the latter getting preference.
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The near-absence of the tribal community at Saturday’s public meeting of youth Trinamul president and MP Abhishek Banerjee in Nagrakata has left district party leaders frowning.
On Saturday, some 25,000 people had turned up at Abhishek’s meeting at the European Club grounds, Nagrakata, but only a fraction was from the tribal community.
“However, we found that the number of tribal people was very few,” said K.K. Kalyani, the Jalpaiguri district Trinamul president on Sunday. “This should not have happened as the meeting was arranged to address the tribals, thousands of whom live in Nagrakata, Malbazar and adjoining areas. The block leaders and elected representatives of these areas have been asked to find out why tribal turnout was low.”