Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a rally in Kolkata\u2019s Brigade Parade Ground on March 7 to mark the conclusion of Paribartan Yatra in West Bengal.<\/p>\n
The PM is also scheduled to visit the state on February 22 to address a rally in Chinsurah, Hooghly district and to flag off the extension of the city\u2019s North-South Metro corridor from Noapara to Dakhineshwar.<\/p>\n
With elections knocking on the door in Bengal, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Trinamool are both holding multiple rallies and public meetings every day. The BJP has launched five rath yatras as a part of its outreach programme, one each from the party\u2019s five organisational zones. The fifth and the final yatra was flagged off by Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday.<\/p>\n
In the last Assembly election of 2016, Mamata Banerjee\u2019s Trinamool Congress had won 211 seats, Congress had won 44 seats, the Left parties got 26 seats and the BJP got three seats (and \u201cOthers\u201d got 10 seats). In the Lok Sabha elections of 2019, the BJP managed to win as many as 18 seats from Bengal, after which the saffron party is now eager to wrest power in the state from the ruling Trinamool Congress.<\/p>\n
Earlier, the Prime Minister had visited Bengal on February 7 when he inaugurated several Central government projects and addressed people in a public rally in the East Midnapore district. As the election draws near, the visit by top BJP central leaders \u2013 no less than Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah apart from the party\u2019s national president JP Nadda — it is clear how seriously the BJP is taking the Bengal Assembly elections this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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