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Last Updated:May 28, 2025, 10:18 IST
There is a growing sense among a section of the BJP leadership that they have not been able to encash the political Catch-22 situation the TMC has been in for the last one year
News18 has learnt that Amit Shah may pay a visit to the house of Swami Vivekananda. (PTI)
Union Home Minister Amit Shah is all set to sound the poll bugle for the upcoming West Bengal assembly election slated next year in a political huddle at Kolkata’s Netaji Indoor Stadium on June 1. Sources say it was Shah who insisted on the meeting to bring clarity to not just the top state leadership but down to the Mandal presidents on what the next few months will be like and what will be their role in the grand scheme of things.
There are almost 1,300 BJP Mandals in West Bengal. While the new Mandal presidents have been invited, the entire district and state leadership has been asked to be present on June 1.
There is a growing sense among a section of the BJP leadership that they have not been able to encash the political Catch-22 situation the ruling Trinamool Congress has been in for the last one year. Be it allegations during Sandeshkhali or the mass protest over a doctor’s rape and murder and now an ongoing protest by agitating teachers who have lost their jobs following a recent Supreme Court order—Shah is expected to handhold the state unit towards success.
Ahead of Madhya Pradesh assembly polls, the state BJP was in a similar state of disarray when Shah stepped in to monitor their work daily from Delhi and the rest is history.
“Having listened to him in many such meetings, I expect him to enthuse to leadership. I would not be surprised if Amit-ji raises Murshidabad and Operation Sindoor on June 1. Many would also want to know about the future of Dilip Da (Ghosh) whose recent hobnobbing with Mamata Banerjee hasn’t gone down well with any of us and even he (Shah) knows that. So, his speech will put a lot of things into perspective," a Bengal BJP national executive member told News18.
Sources in the know suggest that after the organisation meeting, Shah is set to take part in a “religious event". News18 has learnt that Shah may pay a visit to the house of Swami Vivekananda, a Bengali icon whose teachings the BJP and its ideological parent Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) often invoke to align with their vision of cultural nationalism and Hindutva.
It is learnt that BJP MP Locket Chatterjee, who is in the race to become the next Bengal BJP chief, is overseeing the event. Many saints are also likely to join in the event.
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