BJP president Nadda to address rallies in West Bengal on Sunday

BJP president JP Nadda will address two rallies in West Bengals Purba Bardhaman and Purba Medinipur districts on Sunday party sources saidHe began his twoday visit to West Bengal on Saturday evening and held a closeddoor meeting in Kolkata with the party leaders to review the preparedness for the upcoming panchayat elections in the state they saidHe had last visited the state on January 19During the closeddoor organisational meeting Nadda ji asked the state leaders to fix the gaps and put up a fight against the TMC misrule in the state a party leader saidOn Sunday Nadda will first visit a Kali temple at Purbasthali in Purba Bardhaman and then address a public meeting at a nearby groundLater in the day he will address another rally at Kanthi in Purba Medinipur district Kanthi is the hometown of Leader of Opposition and Nandigram MLA Suvendu AdhikariAlso Read PM Modi to visit Dausa today to inaugurate part of DelhiMumbai ExpresswayThe BJP lost both Bardhaman Purba and Kanthi Lok Sabha seats to the Trinamool Congress in the 2019 electionsNaddas programmes are a part of the BJP central leaderships Pravas campaign to strengthen its organisation in 144 Lok Sabha seats across the country that the party had lost by a slender margin in the 2019 electionsOver the next few months Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah will address 12 rallies each covering 24 Lok Sabha seats in the state that the party had lost in the last electionThe BJP won 18 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state in the 2019 pollsThe ruling Trinamool Congress however declined to attach much importance to Naddas visitAs the rural polls are approaching BJP leaders will be coming more frequently but these visits will not yield any result We have seen how the BJPs central leaders had camped in West Bengal before the 2021 assembly polls but the party faced defeat TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh had said on FridayNaddas visit to West Bengal comes at a time when the party is looking to strengthen its organisational machinery ahead of the panchayat electionsInternal squabbles and defections have plagued the BJP after the 2021 assembly election results were announcedFormer Union minister Babul Supriyo party MP Arjun Singh and six legislators including national vice president Mukul Roy have switched over to the TMC since the 2021 assembly pollsThe TMC steamrolled to power for the third consecutive term in 2021 winning 215 assembly seats while the BJP bagged only 77 seatsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever