Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be on a 2-day visit to the West Bengal from November 5 to take stock of the party's organizational matters, sources said. West Bengal BJP general secretary Sayantan Basu said the scheduled visit of its national president J P Nadda from November 6 stood cancelled.
Sayantan Basu’s official statement quotes: "J P Nadda Ji's visit stands cancelled as of now. It has been decided that Amit Shah ji will be in West Bengal on a 2-day visit from November 5. He is likely to visit Medinipur organizational district on Nov 5 and on the next day he will meet party leaders in the state. The schedule has not been finalised as of now,"
After the ongoing Bihar Assembly elections, electoral battle lines will be drawn in West Bengal, where the polls are likely to be held in April-May 2021. Shah will look into various organizational aspects and discuss the party's strategy for the upcoming assembly elections, BJP national general secretary and in-charge of Bengal, Kailash Vijayvargiya, said.
"It will be more or less indoor programmes. There are chances that he might address a press conference in Kolkata," he said. During the visit, Shah, along with senior party leaders such as Vijayvargiya, Vice-president Mukul Roy and state president Dilip Ghosh, will interact with booth and district-level leaders, sources said.
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