The Sunday Guardian

BJP READY WITH HIGH-VOLTAGE CAMPAIGN FOR BENGAL

- KOLKATA

With less than a month to go before the West Bengal Assembly elections are announced, the Bharatiya Janata Party is going all guns blazing into the election campaign from next week as decided at the core committee meeting held by the senior party leadership earlier this week in New Delhi.

According to sources aware of the details of the meeting that was held in the national capital, the BJP has chalked out a detailed roadmap for the election campaignin­g that it will undertake to corner the Trinamool Congress in the state, which it sees as the main opponent in the upcoming elections.

The core committee meeting of the BJP leadership, which was held at the New Delhi residence of state BJP president Dilip Ghosh on 2 February, also saw the attendance of newly inducted leaders such as Suvendu Adhikari and Rajib Banerjee. Apart from them, national general secretary of the party and Bengal observer, Kailash Vijayvargi­ya, national vice president, Mukul Roy, national joint general secretary, organisati­on, Shivprakas­h, national secretary and coincharge of Bengal, Arvind Menon, were also present in the meeting.

The plans discussed in the core committee meeting of the BJP included the “Parivartan Rath Yatra”, which started on Saturday as the BJP believes that this Rath Yatra, which will pass through all the 294 Assembly constituen­cies of the state, will create a momentum for the BJP.

According to sources in the

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