PM Modi to hold 3 rallies in 5 days in Bengal
An 8-phase election begins in West Bengal on March 27.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Kharagpur of West Midnapore on Saturday. This is Modi’s second visit to West Bengal in three days. He was in Purulia on Thursday. The PM is scheduled to tour Bengal visiting three districts over the next five days.
On Saturday, he will be campaigning for Bharatiya Janata Party candidate actor Hiran Chatterjee, who recently resigned from the Trinamool Congress and joined the BJP. Modi is slated to visit the state again on Monday and Wednesday.
Bengal goes to an eight-phase election beginning March 27 and ends on April 29. Results are out on May 2.
For Modi and for the BJP, Kharagpur is a prestige fight. In 2016 too Modi had addressed a rally on the same BNR Grounds, which is again the venue for his rally on Saturday. The Modi effect ensured a win for the BJP as it chose now BJP state president Dilip Ghosh from this constituency as an MLA. After Ghosh left the seat and was elected an MP in the last Lok Sabha polls in 2019, the by-election in Kharagpur resulted in a win for the Trinamool Congress.
And this seems to be a major concern for the saffron camp, which is eager to wrest the seat in Kharagpur this time. Amit Shah too campaigned for the BJP candidate here.
In between Modi’s visits, on Sunday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be in the state campaigning in East Midnapore and releasing the party’s manifesto for Bengal in the evening.
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