For this Assembly election, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is going to conduct one of the costliest campaigns in West Bengal, with all national-level leaders of the party moving around the state in three helicopters for the next one month starting April 10.
“We are taking this election very seriously and the BJP will emerge as a big power after the elections in Bengal. All the national leaders, including L K Advani, Arun Jaitley, Narendra Modi and Hema Malini will campaign extensively. We will use three helicopters for the purpose,” said Rahul Sinha, state president of the BJP.
Campaigning will start from April 10, and all North Bengal constituencies, starting from Siliguri, will be covered by April 17 and 16 meetings at the constituencies between Malda and Siliguri from April 10 to 13.
National leaders including L K Advani, Arun Jaitley, Chandan Mitra, Rajnath Singh, Smriti Malhotra Irani and Sushma Swaraj will campaign extensively. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will cover three phases of the elections and Hema Malini five phases in the six-phase polls starting April 18.
Sinha urged the people of Bengal to vote for BJP as according to him, the Trinamool and the CPM are two sides of the same coin. “All the goons, mafias and extortionists of the CPM have changed sides and joined the Trinamool. The culture of holding processions with dead bodies was non-existent in West Bengal. But it is now a common practice, thanks to the Trinamool.”
He said that whatever image the two parties might try to project, in reality both Trinamool and CPM are anti-industrialisation and it is only because of their ego-clash that the Tatas had to move out of Bengal.
Alleging that both the parties are adept at stoking communal fire, Sinha said: “While Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee declared that she will arrange for reservation for minorities if her party comes to power, the CPM actually arranged for a 10 per cent reservation for Muslims. The Bill has not yet been passed by the governor, but Goutam Deb is claiming on television that they have already implemented the Bill. A politics of lies is going on in Bengal.”
He added that however much Banerjee might emphasise development in her campaigns, no real development is possible under her as she runs a “private company, where she is the only boss, and the rest are employees. For bringing development in any state, a party should have a clearly defined ideology and policy, which is not there in a one-man party like the Trinamool, Sinha said.
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