On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to West Bengal for a two-day visit. During his visit, he would inaugurate projects worth ₹22,000 crore at separate ceremonies and speak at two rallies in Arambagh and Krishnanagar.
Modi will speak to a crowd on Saturday in Krishnanagar at an assembly segment. Mukul Roy, the turncoat of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), won the seat in 2021 on a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket. Madhusudan Bag of the BJP is an Arambagh assemblyman. When the BJP won 18 of Bengal’s 42 Lok Sabha seats in 2019, TMC’s Aparupa Poddar won the Arambagh Lok Sabha seat for a second time.
The goal that the BJP has set for itself in Bengal is to capture 35 seats, including Krishnanagar. The TMC’s Mahua Moitra, who was removed from the Lok Sabha for asking questions in Parliament after being accused of accepting bribes, was elected to the Krishnanagar seat in 2019. Satyabrata Mookerjee of the BJP won the seat in 1999 and was appointed as a Union minister.
When the Prime Minister speaks to the public, BJP leader Samik Bhattacharya stated that they expect him to concentrate on creating a society free of corruption in Bengal. “He’ll talk about the growth and rebirth of this state’s industries.”
At a Jhargram gathering on Thursday, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee made criticisms of Modi without mentioning him by name. When elections are about to take place, some individuals begin travelling to Bengal. They make lofty claims that they never fulfil. The cost of cooking gas will skyrocket if the BJP wins this election.
Days after Home Minister Amit Shah announced on February 10 that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) will be put into effect prior to the Lok Sabha polls, Modi is scheduled to visit in Bengaluru.
The CAA was passed in 2019 to expedite the naturalisation process for non-Muslims who arrived in India from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan prior to 2015. TMC has opposed CAA, claiming that it violates the constitution in a secular nation by tying citizenship to religion.
A sizable community of scheduled castes, including Namasudras who immigrated from Bangladesh, live in Bengal. In every recent election, the BJP has made this community its main priority.
