Speculation rife on Adhikari’s defection to BJP during Modi s tour
Updated Feb 4, 2021, 11:30 am IST
The state government has asked the BJP to take permission for its five rath yatras from the district administrations
The party’s state and central leadership decided at a meeting in New Delhi to hold Mr Modi’s maiden rally for the polls as part of his Haldia tour. (PTI)
Kolkata: Targeting West Bengal’s Trinamul Congress in what was once its home turf, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will kickstart his Assembly election campaign from Haldia in East Midnapore, the Adhikari family bastion, with a BJP rally next week amid the party’s rathyatra led by its president J.P. Nadda and home minister Amit Shah seeking “parivartan” in the poll-bound state.