BJP seeks TMC govt nod for Rath Yatra

KOLKATA: With Assembly polls just months away, the West Bengal BJP on Monday sought permission from the ruling Trinamool Congress government to hold the party’s two-month long ‘Rath Yatra’ or ‘Parivartan Yatra’ across the state.

West Bengal BJP vice-president Pratap Banerjee met Chief Secretar y Alapan Bandopadhyay at the state secretariat to submit a letter where it was mentioned that the BJP is intending to hold Rath Yatras and Padyatras from the ongoing month till March-end. Notably, similar Rath Yatras were organised by the saffron camp in 2018 ahead of the parliamentar y election in 2019 but the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC government didn’t give permission to the BJP to hold the yatra.