In West Bengal, BJP begins work on its election manifesto

At a time when BJP’s rivals in West Bengal are busy diffusing growing discontentment and dissatisfaction or deliberating whether or not to stitch up an alliance for the assembly polls, the saffron party has already started the ground work for its election manifesto to woo the voters and also to project itself as the “only alternative” to the ruling Mamata Banrejee led TMC.

The central leadership wants the document to have “real feedback from the ground” and for that the party wants the feedback from all the 78,000 booths across the 294 assembly seats.

While anti-incumbency, corruption, law and order, “syndicate raj,” misgovernance and political killing of opponents are going to the main poll planks of the BJP, its manifesto, the party claims, will “not be just a political document but a document made by people of Bengal.”

The BJP is hoping to compile the feedback by January end so that it can strategise its election campaigning according to the feedback also.

The party has set up several teams to reach out to their respective target voters, including students, youths, professionals, artists, housewives, businessmen, labours, farmers, those working in unorganized sectors, intellectual among others.

West Bengal is one of the states, where the BJP has never been in power and had a meager political presence, both organisationally as well as support base.

But since 2014, the party’s central leadership have been aggressively campaigning and strengthening the party’s organizational base as well as its support base, whose result was witnessed in the 2019 Lok Sabh elections when the party won 18 out of total 42 parliamentary seats.

The party claims that its presence is now on every booth spread across the state and has found a “massive support among youth, women and in rural areas.”