Amit Shah, JP Nadda warm up BJP’s Bengal poll pot amid house disorder

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By Manish Anand

New Delhi, December 26: On a day when Union Minister for Home Affairs Amit Shah and the chief of the Bharatiya Janata Party JP Nadda held limelight in Kolakata, the party issued a late evening circular to announce removal of the national secretary Anupam Hazra from the position in the national office bearers. The BJP action to sack from the party’s key position has come on the backdrop of the former Lok Sabha MP vocally criticizing the party’s state leadership in West Bengal.

Shah offered prayers at the famous Kali Temple in Kolkata. He and Nadda afterwards addressed a meeting of the party’s IT cell workers in Kolkata. The two leaders also held a meeting of the core group of the BJP in the state.

Shah posted on X after the core group meeting, saying “Today, along with national president Nadda, held a meeting of the BJP West Bengal unit core group in Kolkata and discussed the strategies for the upcoming election. The people of Bengal trust PM Modi and are all set to bless the BJP in 2024 Lok Sabha elections with 35 seats.”

Nadda also stated after his address to the IT cell workers of the patyy, saying that “our social media volunteers play a vital role in taking our ideology and works to the people, as well as countering the falsehoods that are peddled against us. In Bengal, they also have the important responsibility of making people aware of the blatant corruption of TMC and the hindrance they have been causing to central government’s developmental work.”

But the presence of the two top leaders of the BJP gave a sense of irgency on the part of the saffron outfit to bring house in order in West Bengal ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. Hazra has been meeting the dissident BJP leaders in the state. He has been vocal against the state leadership of the party. The BJP top brass is vacking leader of the Opposition in West Bengal Suvendu Adhikari.

The top leadership of the party believes that Adhikari has the wherewithal to take on incumbent Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. But the state BJP leaders have regularly been striking discordant notes. Former state unit chief of the BJP Dilip Ghosh has also been critical of the functioning of the party in West Bengal.

While Shah has regularly been travelling to West Bengal, the BJP appears struggling to build campaign in the state where the saffron outfit saw a large number of desertion from the party ranks to the ruling Trinamool Congress. While the BJP had won 18 Lok Sabha seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from West Bengal, the saffron outfit appears growing wary of the fact that holding on to the gains would be crucial to stay in power at the Centre.

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Manish Anand

Manish Anand is a senior journalist with more than two decades of hardcore reporting on beats such as Prime Minister’s Office, Parliament, BJP, Congress, Planning Commission, NITI Aayog, and scores of Union Ministries.

His past has been with The New Indian Express, The Asian Age/Deccan Chronicle, and The Statesman.

For about 15 years, Manish was also a regular commentator and host for talks on AIR on foreign affairs.

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