All you need to know about Amit Shah Kolkata tour 2nd day.
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- Several Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders, including Suvendu Adhikari, left the party in the days leading up to his visit to the state.
- Though state officials have been summoned by the Centre over the attack.
- In October, Nadda was on a day-long state visit and came on a two-day tour last week whereas in November before that.
Early on Saturday morning, Union Home Minister Amit Shah reached Kolkata for a two-day visit to take stock of the activities of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal ahead of the assembly elections scheduled to take place next year in the eastern state.
Shah tweeted as he entered the state capital of Calcutta, “I bow to this revered land of great men like Gurudev Tagore, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar as well as Syama Prasad Mookerjee.”
Several Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders, including Suvendu Adhikari, left the party in the days leading up to his visit to the state, and there is the widespread possibility that they could join the BJP in the next two days.
Here is everything you need to know about the visit to West Bengal by Amit Shah:
1. On Saturday, Amit Shah is expected to address a public rally in Midnapore. Throughout that rally, a number of TMC leaders were likely to join the BJP, reports the PTI news agency.
2. A day before his tour, a controversy arose after placards were found all over Bolpur as well as Santiniketan in Bengal’s Birbhum district with his image above Rabindranath Tagore’s. On Sunday, the Shah is expected to visit Bolpur.
3. After local people as well as students of Visva Bharati, Bengal’s only national university established by Tagore, raised objections, the placards were withdrawn.
4. In the meantime, during the visit of BJP chief JP Nadda, the tussle between the Centre as well as the state over the alleged violation of law and order situation in the state continued. During his visit to the state, Nadda’s convoy was targeted.
Though state officials have been summoned by the Centre over the attack, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that it was staged because BJP leaders always come with their own safety.
5. At a party meeting last month, it was agreed that the Shah, as well as Nadda, will visit West Bengal every month until the assembly elections are over, possibly in April-May.
6. In October, Nadda was on a day-long state visit and came on a two-day tour last week whereas in November before that, Shah had been in the state for two days.
