BJP Brings in Leaders From Across India for Bengal Elections

Nearly 30 BJP functionaries from Delhi have already been deputed to West Bengal and are expected to camp there until the polls. A senior party leader said more leaders from BJP-ruled states would arrive in the coming days to strengthen the organisation on the ground.

Union home minister Amit Shah is scheduled to reach Kolkata on Friday night and will hold a strategy meeting with senior state leaders and the party’s core committee. Shah, who is overseeing the party’s poll preparations, is expected to take feedback from state leaders and fine-tune the BJP’s election strategy. He is also likely to meet district-level functionaries and focus on booth-level strengthening. A public rally at Barrackpore is also on his itinerary.

Sources said the BJP has begun deploying senior strategists, Union and state ministers, MPs and MLAs from across the country to oversee organisational work and poll preparedness. Several leaders have been assigned specific regions, parliamentary constituencies and Assembly segments to ensure effective implementation of party strategies, resolve internal issues and coordinate campaign activities.

Among the senior leaders from outside the State already camping or set to arrive are Uttar Pradesh minister J.P. S. Rathore, Uttarakhand minister Dhan Singh Rawat, former BJP national general secretary and Karnataka MLC C.T. Ravi, Rajasthan BJP Kisan Morcha president Kailash Choudhary, former UP minister Suresh Rana, and Haryana BJP general secretary Sanjay Bhatia.

Several BJP MLAs and leaders from the national capital, including Raj Kumar Bhatia, Abhay Verma, Ajay Mahawar, Gajendra Yadav, councillor Shashi Yadav, Manish Singh, Vijay Solanki, Devendra Solanki and Vikram Bidhuri, have also been assigned roles in the party’s campaign in West Bengal.

During his two-day visit, Shah will hold meetings with the state core committee and party workers from various districts. On Saturday, he will attend a workers’ meeting at Barrackpore before travelling to north Bengal. He is also scheduled to address select BJP workers from five organisational districts in Siliguri behind closed doors.

The West Bengal Assembly elections are likely to be held in April-May.