Kailash Vijayvargiya said: “The ground in Bengal is well prepared for a change”.
Calcutta:
After winning the polls of the Bihar assembly, West Bengal will be the “main objective” of the BJP where it has set itself the goal of winning more than 200 seats out of the 294 elected in the national elections scheduled for April-May 2021 , declared the national secretary general of the party. Kailash Vijayvargiya said Wednesday.
The NDA won 125 seats in the Bihar assembly, which has 243 members, the results of which were announced on Tuesday.
The BJP, with its score of 74 seats, became the party to win the second most seats after Lalu Prasad’s RJD.
The party’s record is much higher than that of its ally, the JD (U), which won 43 seats. He will now focus on politically crucial West Bengal, which sends 42 MPs to Lok Sabha – two more than Bihar, said Mr Vijayvargiya, also head of the BJP in Bengal.
The BJP, which made a deep breakthrough in West Bengal by winning 18 of its 42 seats in Lok Sabha – four fewer than the ruling TMC in the 2019 general election, was awaiting the results of the elections in Bihar before mounting its “assault” final ”on the Mamata Banerjee. government, party sources said.
Mr. Vijayvargiya is of the opinion that not only the results of the Bihar assembly polls, the victory of the BJP in several polls across the country shows that not only people’s confidence in him has increased, but also in politicians from the BJP government to the Center. .
“A victory always boosts the morale of party workers. The BJP’s victory in Bihar and the by-elections will serve as a moral boost for its workers in the state. West Bengal will now be our main target state.”
“The ground in Bengal is well prepared for a change and we must make sure that the anger against the TMC government is channeled. We will use all our energy to free the people of the state from the mismanagement of the TMC,” he said. -he declares.
Mr. Vijayvargiya said the BJP victory in West Bengal will be “much bigger” because it “will take power with a two-thirds majority”. “If you analyze Bihar and the poll results, you will see that the strike rate of the BJP is very good. In Bengal we are fighting alone, so we are convinced to pass the target of 200 seats and more in the State, ”he told me.
Union Home Minister and top BJP leader Amit Shah, during his visit to the state last week, said West Bengal was the party’s “main target state” and that he “would fight him and win him with a massive mandate.”
BJP head of state Dilip Ghosh echoed him and said: “After Bihar, it will be West Bengal for BJP.”
“The saffron wave seen in neighboring Bihar will also sweep the TMC in West Bengal. The difference between the elections in the two states is that we were in power in Bihar for almost 15 years, but in West Bengal we are a challenger. “Says Mr. Ghosh.
A section of BJP state leaders, however, stressed that the results of the Bihar election will have little impact on the polls in West Bengal, other than the seats along the border. But it will act as a “morale booster” for party workers in Bengal.
Several state leaders from the BJP said the party would take inspiration from the results of the Bihar poll and “re-strategize” its campaign problems for the West Bengal elections.
To corner TMC, the BJP has so far insisted on its allegations of mismanagement, public order issues, violence, corruption and the administration’s handling of the COVID-19 situation in West Bengal. “The results of the elections in Bihar have shown that issues such as unemployment and the migrant worker crisis are crucial at several seats. We must therefore also insist on these problems.
“As Bihar was the first state to hold an assembly ballot after the COVID-19 outbreak, there are a few things we all need to take away from it,” said a senior BJP leader from West Bengal.
Although the BJP has the advantage of being an “untested challenger” in West Bengal where it has never been in power, the party is well aware that it will face Mamata Banerjee, who has a reputation for be a tough fighter, according to party sources. .
“If RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav can fight such a fight (in Bihar), everyone can guess the kind of fight we will face in West Bengal,” said another BJP leader. According to parliamentary poll results, the camp won 40.5% of the vote and led more than 125 assembly seats in the state.
The central leadership of the BJP has called on state leaders to spread out into the districts and organize mass agitations and mobilizations on issues of concern to the population, before Congress and the Left Front capitalized on it. these problems, party sources said.
“People will see several unrest in different segments of the assembly on local issues from November-December,” said a BJP leader, adding that the party was also working to fill gaps in its organizational strength in some. districts.
The Trinamool Congress mocked the party’s goal of winning more than 200 seats in the state.
“Regarding the coming to power in West Bengal, the BJP still lives in a paradise for fools. Its candidates will lose deposits in most seats,” said MP and TMC spokesman Saugato Roy.
