Amit Shah holds rally in Kolkata

Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah is set to address a mega rally in the metropolis on Wednesday, potentially setting the tone for the party’s campaign for next year’s Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal. Preparations are underway for the mega rally at Esplanade on November 29, where Shah is expected to set the tone for the BJP’s electoral strategy in the state.

BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar told PTI, “Amit Shah Ji will be addressing the rally. He is likely to set the tone for next year’s Lok Sabha polls in Bengal. During a rally in April, he had set a target for us to win more than 35 seats from the state.”

The BJP had won 18 out of the 42 parliamentary constituencies in the state in 2019.

Majumdar, during preparatory programmes for the rally, emphasized that the event would reflect public discontent against alleged corruption by TMC leaders and ministers since 2011, their involvement in scams, and the arrest of numerous ruling party figures in graft cases.