Amit Shah cancels West Bengal visit for rath-yatra inauguration; BJP’s appeal to be heard in High Court division bench today
A day after the Calcutta High Court told the Bharatiya Janata Party that it cannot hold the rally from Bengal’s Coochbehar, the division bench is scheduled to hear the case again today.
However, BJP’s national president Amit Shah has cancelled his trip to the state and will hold a press conference in Delhi later today. The Court had denied permission for the rath yatra as it might cause “communal tension”.
The rath yatra will criss-cross the state and cover all 42 Lok Sabha constituencies of West Bengal.
The state government denied permission for the rath yatra and submitted to the court that the rally might cause communal tension.
Shah was scheduled to flag off the rally from Coochbehar today, but he cancelled the trip. All eyes are now on the hearing of the case in a division bench of the Calcutta High Court, scheduled later today.
There are plans for two other rallies by the BJP – one to be flagged off from Kakdwip in South 24 Parganas on December 9 and another from Birbhum’s Tarapith on December 14. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a rally in Kolkata as the rallies conclude.
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