Tue. Mar 19th, 2024

Nalin Kohli, BJP’s national spokesperson on Saturday indicated that the party would hold more meetings with more political stalwarts in West Bengal. Previously, several leaders stayed away from the meeting with Amit Shah.

“If in one meeting some people did not come, that does not mean it was the last meeting,” Mr. Kohli told journalists on the sidelines of an event in the city organized by the Indian Chamber of Commerce.

Amit Shah had gone to West Bengal for a two-day visit on Wednesday to hold a strategic meeting with party leaders and workers ahead of the crucial general election next year. However, several intellectuals refused to attend the lectures despite acknowledging the invitation. It included actor Soumitra Chatterjee, former Supreme Court Judge Ashok Ganguly, theatre stars like Rudraprasad Sengupta and painter Samir Aich.

Mr Kohli didn’t deny that Most of the notable people were missing. Instead, he stated,“Anyone who is contributing to nation building is an intellectual. Intellectuals need not be only those we recognize by definition. There are prominent people, and then there are those who do not come into the limelight but are intellectually rich,”

The “grand alliance” being proposed by opposition parties to oust the BJP from power in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections is “imaginary” as there is nobody to lead it, claims BJP. While there are BSP-JP alliance rumors and also several parties opposing the stance of BJP and their position in the 2019 polls the party has dismissed all such claims.

BJP president Amit Shah during his June 28 visit to West Bengal had ridiculed Trinamool Congress supremo and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee‘s efforts to stitch an alliance against his party.

He had said that Ms Banerjee should first concentrate on her home turf of West Bengal as “the ground was slipping from under her feet”.

The spokesperson said, “There could be three formations of the grand alliance — Congress-led, Congress involved and Congress out. Which is it? We don’t know. We also don’t know who is leading it.”

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