Amit Shah West Bengal Visit Live Updates: On Sunday, Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to visit Visva Bharati in Shantiniketan followed by a roadshow in Bolpur. The BJP’s state chief Dilip Ghosh has said that Shah and party president J P Nadda would visit West Bengal every month till the Assembly elections, likely in April-May, are over. Shah is on a two-day visit to the state to take stock of the party’s affairs ahead of the Assembly elections.
Preparations are in full swing in Bolpur town in Birbhum district to welcome Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday. Huge cutouts of Shah, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP leaders Mukul Roy and others have been put in Bolpur-Santiniketan Road where Shah will participate in a roadshow. In a bid to counter the BJP, posters of chief minister Mamata Banerjee highlighting her government’s achievements have also come up on the same road.
Sending out a warning to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Union Home Minister Amit Shah Saturday said the BJP will win more than 200 seats in next year’s state Assembly elections. Pointing out desertions from TMC, Shah took potshots at the party chief, saying that CM Mamata Banerjee will be left alone in the party by the time elections arrive.
