BJP Party President Amit Shah is on a three-day tour to West Bengal as a part of the vistarak programme, under which he will take a tour of 110 days visiting all the state in India strengthening the foot holds of the party ahead of the Lok Sabha elections due in 2019.
BJP is adamant in getting nothing less than the victory in the upcoming polls and is doing everything possible to woo the voters and build the confidence of the people across Indian in BJP. Amit Shah is personally visiting all the states holding discussions and giving instructions to the party office bearers and members regarding the strategies of the election campaign. He is on a three-day visit to West Bengal, this being his second trip in past five months.
On Monday while holding discussions with the party members Amit Shah said that they need not silently tolerate the attacks on them and it asked the party workers to build a strong resistance against the ruling Trinamool Congress led by Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal. He also told that if the situation demands the members should not hold back retaliation. These orders come from the Party President after a WB BJP worker asked how to counter Trinamool Congress’ alleged atrocities on party’s district-level workers. He even questioned the workers angrily that if they were facing any such atrocities from the ruling party why had they been quiet for so long?
On his first day of the visit, Shah visited the ancestral home of Swami Vivekanand to mark the 125th anniversary of the leader’s famous speech at the Parliament of World’s Religions in Chicago in September 1893. Shah also held six meetings with Bengal’s BJP workers at all levels on Monday. He first met the district presidents and general secretaries and then held meetings with the observers to discuss the party’s strategy to completely wash out Trinamool and establish BJP rule in West Bengal.
The party President also held meetings with party’s Minority, Mahila and Yuva Morchas. Six Union leaders including JP Nadda, Babul Supriyo and SS Ahluwalia and party general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya were assigned new constituencies by Shah. A senior party leader said that all 42 constituencies would have 42 ‘palaks’ (caretakers), these palaks would be the local leaders of the respective regions. He added that the Central leaders will hold the cluster of constituencies under them.
On Tuesday Amit Shah is scheduled to BJP’s election management committee and the intellectuals of Kolkata. He will also be having lunch at a party worker’s house. The next visit of Shah is likely to be in January according to a party source.