While the BJP is but to kick off its marketing campaign in West Bengal, the celebration is already in movement mode with Union Home Minister Amit Shah putting the tone beforehand of the 2024 Lok Sabha election withinside the state. Mr Shah has set a goal for the BJP – 35 of the state`s forty two parliamentary seats. In 2019, the BJP gained 18 seats.
At a rally in Suri in Birbhum district, Mr Shah centered Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Trinamool Congress’s National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee and Anubrata Mondal – the effective TMC district president for Birbhum who has added for the celebration most of these years.
With Mr Mondal in prison after being arrested with the aid of using the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for his alleged reference to a cattle-smuggling probe, the BJP plans to make the most his absence from the floor politically.
“The Didi (Mamata Banerjee) and the Bhatija (Abhishek Banerjee) are conducting misrule and the handiest opportunity is BJP. We have stopped cow smuggling. Do you need infiltration in Bengal? The handiest manner to forestall it’s miles to vote for BJP,” Mr Shah said, turning in a sturdy message on Mr Mondal’s domestic turf.
Mr Shah additionally mentioned what the BJP’s goal in Bengal is for the 2024 elections. He needs 35 of the state’s forty two parliamentary seats which he claimed could be sufficient to topple the Mamata Banerjee authorities withinside the state.
“Give us 35 seats in 2024 and the Mamata Banerjee authorities may be out. There is corruption in Bengal. And handiest the BJP can forestall it,” Mr Shah said.
The TMC slammed Mr Shah for the use of crucial corporations to goal the celebration after the 2021 election while the BJP couldn’t shape a central authority regardless of going for walks a high-voltage marketing campaign strategised with the aid of using Mr Shah himself.
The TMC additionally known as him a ‘seasonal bird’ who visits West Bengal at some stage in elections and recommended him to move returned to Delhi and do his activity and now no longer take pleasure in trash talk.
Women and Child Development Minister of West Bengal, Shashi Panja said, “He prevented answering the 5 questions the Trinamool Congress changed into asking. And simply the manner the Union Rural Development Minister prevented assembly the delegation of MPs from Trinamool Congress, Amit Shah too prevented the ones important questions, which blanketed MNREGA price range. What approximately price range for Bengal? He changed into speaking approximately corruption but he changed into sharing the level with Suvendu Adhikari who changed into stuck on digital digicam taking money.”
While the Trinamool has determined to make the withholding of crucial price range to beneficiaries in West Bengal a key election difficulty and hopes to position the BJP at the mat for ‘depriving Bengal’, the BJP believes focussing troubles like corruption, violence will assist it dislodge the TMC from power.
Both the TMC and the BJP are focussing at the regions wherein they did now no longer win seats withinside the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. While Mr Shah campaigned in Birbhum, Trinamool’s Abhishek Banerjee campaigned in Bankura this week. With the TMC looking to recapture the floor it misplaced to the BJP in 2019, the BJP appears ahead to enhancing its 2019 tally of 18 seats withinside the state.
