Will form next govt in Bengal: Amit Shah

DESCRIBING BENGAL as the “most poverty-stricken state”, BJP president Amit Shah on Thursday said that BJP would form a government in West Bengal after the next state elections. Shah on Thursday concluded his three-day tour of West Bengal by visiting the ancestral house of Jana Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee in Kolkata’s Bhawanipore area and holding a meeting with booth-level party workers at Rajarhat.

“The atmosphere I have seen in last three days has made me confident that next time, BJP will form a government in West Bengal.itwillbeagovernmentfor the people, which will make sure that you do not have to move court to hold immersion of Durga idols. Once a BJP government is formed, Bangladeshi infiltrators will be stopped at the border and youthwillgetemployment,”shah told party workers at Rajarhat.

“In the last three days, I have interacted with the people of West Bengal. The kind of atrocities the state government has inflicted on the people of West Bengal has never been seen anywhere in the country after Independence. You can never see the kind of poverty, which is visible here, in any other state of the country,” Shah said.

He added: “I assure you that once a BJP government is formed in West Bengal, the state will turn into a happy state like Gujarat, Maharashtra and Haryana... The kind of response the BJP has received, I am confident that people would bring another change here.”

At the booth-level meeting at Sukantanagar in Rajarhat, he launched a ‘booth chalo abhijan’.

Earlier in the day, Shah visited the ancestral house of Syama Prasad Mookerjee in Bhawanipore. “Our focus will be to bring more people into the party and expand the organisation,” said a senior party leader.

Wrapped up his visit to the state Thursday.