Four days earlier than the outcomes of meeting polls in 5 states are due, BJP launched its 2024 Lok Sabha marketing campaign in West Bengal. The celebration organised an enormous rally within the coronary heart of Kolkata. Addressing the rally, Home Minister Amit Shah stated, he was assured that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will get his third time period by successful subsequent 12 months’s parliamentary elections. Shah additionally predicted that Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress would lose badly in Bengal, and within the 2026 meeting elections. “It will be ‘goodbye time’ for ‘Didi’ (Mamata)”, he stated. Amit Shah additionally stated, Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens will probably be applied in Bengal and “no one can stop it”. Mamata Banerjee and her celebration had been strongly opposing the CAA and NRC, alleging that it was being focused at Muslims. Amit Shah alleged that the Trinamool authorities in Bengal was distributing Aadhar and voter id playing cards to infiltrators from Bangladesh and Myanmar, who’ve entered the state.
“These infiltrators”, he stated, “are depriving the rights of Bengali Hindus and BJP will not allow this.” Even as Shah was addressing the rally, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her celebration leaders sat on a dharna close to Ambedkar statue inside Assembly premises demanding launch of funds for 3,000 MNREGA staff from the Centre. However, all eyes had been on the BJP rally which Mamata authorities tried to stall by refusing to provide police permission. BJP obtained Calcutta High Court’s inexperienced sign and this energized celebration supporters who converged on the rally venue. In his speech, Amit Shah alleged that Mamata Banerjee had received the final meeting elections with the assistance of rigging, however this time, her appeasement politics will finish. Shah focused Trinamool authorities on points referring to corruption, crime, electoral violence, appeasement and infiltration. “The people of Bengal will now teach Didi a lesson for all the scams and political violence that have taken place”, Shah stated.
Amit Shah stated, Bengal obtained Rs 14,000 crore as MNREGA funds from the Centre throughout 10 years of UPA rule, whereas Modi authorities has given Rs 54,000 crore funds to the state. Soon after Shah’s rally ended, BJP MLAs led by chief of opposition Suvendu Adhikari went to the state meeting premises to stage a counter-dharna. They had been alleging “authoritarianism” on a part of Mamata Banerjee. There was sloganeering from either side. Later, Mamata Banerjee claimed that since Amit Shah’s rally was a flop present, BJP MLAs have come to the meeting premises to stage protest. She requested the Speaker to take motion. On the opposite hand, BJP leaders alleged that the state police stopped buses from bringing individuals from the districts to the rally and refused to permit supporters to march to the venue. BJP goes to exert its full power in West Bengal this time.
The celebration’s technique is kind of clear. The focus this time will probably be on states like West Bengal, Odisha, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and Tamil Nadu, the place the celebration is claimed to be weak. The celebration hopes to enhance its tally of Lok Sabha seats. In 2019, BJP received 18 out of a complete of 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal. It was an enormous bounce in comparison with 2014 when the celebration managed to win solely two seats. In the meeting elections in 2021, BJP received 77 seats, however in 2016, the celebration did not win a single meeting seat. Now, BJP is the principle opposition celebration in Bengal, and the Left Front, which dominated the state for greater than three many years, has been fully sidelined. The Congress is sort of extinct. The fundamental battle in Bengal goes to be between BJP and Trinamool Congress. Similarly, BJP is eyeing Telangana too, the place it might win a single seat within the final meeting elections. In the 2019 LS elections, BJP received 4 out of a complete of 17 seats in Telangana. The celebration hopes to garner extra seats this time.
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