As the election nears, the political weather of West Bengal is heating up. BJP has planned five ‘Parivartan Yatras’ in the state. These yatras, typical to BJP’s campaign strategy and inspired by the Rath Yatras of Lal Krishna Advani, will run throughout the state and senior BJP leaders including Union Home Minister Amit Shah will attend them. But Mamata Banerjee is using everything in her power to stop the yatras.
The Mamata government is using delay tactics to ensure that these yatras are not successful in West Bengal. A PIL has been filed, obviously at the behest of TMC, by Rama Prasad Shankar, an advocate in the Calcutta High Court, citing law and order concerns regarding the Rath Yatra of BJP.
However, now the TMC, led by Mamata Banerjee, is denying that it has anything to do with the matter. “A PIL was also filed regarding the same in the High Court & the matter is now sub judice. We thereby clarify that AITC has nothing to do with this issue,” the party said in a statement.
But the Bengal Police has still not cleared the demand to organise the Rath Yatra, although the local administration gave permission for the rally of BJP President J P Nadda, after which the Rath Yatra is supposed to start.
Amit Shah is personally monitoring BJP’s election campaign for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections. He has prepared a 23 point to-do list on every booth level unit to ensure BJP’s victory in the upcoming assembly election. The list includes tasks such as recruitment of people from SC, ST, and OBC communities from every booth and form committees in every area depending on the social configuration.
Also, other senior leaders along with BJP President JP Nadda will visit West Bengal every month now onwards starting from the Rath Yatra.
The entire election strategy prepared by Amit Shah has been activated for West Bengal as BJP is optimistic about gaining power in the state for the first time in the 2021 Assembly Election. Many leaders and party functionaries from the party’s central committee are on deputation in West Bengal.
Mamata Banerjee is so scared of the BJP and Amit Shah that she is not allowing even the Rath Yatra to be conducted in the state. However, given the rising popularity of the saffron party, especially among the non-Bhadralok community, BJP’s victory in the upcoming election looks very likely.
Since the early 2010s, BJP has been tirelessly working, especially in the OBC and ST dominated areas of West Bengal. Dilip Ghosh, who comes from Sadgop caste of the Jungle Mahal region-one of the backward regions of West Bengal, was appointed as the President of West Bengal BJP in 2015.
In 2021 Assembly Elections, the people from the non-Bhadralok community will most likely reclaim their rightful place in the Bengal politics and this will change the image of the state forever. The previous left-front government and the current Mamata government have destroyed the economy of the state, therefore, a regime change is necessary to put it back on the path of growth. Now, only a regime change can bring back the golden days of West Bengal and BJP led by Amit Shah is making sure of that.
