Rahul Gandhi to visit West Bengal to review Congress' poll preparedness

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday will hold a virtual meeting with the senior Congress leaders to review the preparations for the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections.

The meeting will be attended by the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, All India Congress Committee in-charge Jitin Prasada, Members of Parliament, Members of the Legislative Assembly and former MPs from the State.

The agenda of the meeting will be to review the Congress' poll preparedness in the State ahead of the Assembly polls scheduled for 2021. "Senior leaders will be giving their ideas and views to Rahul Gandhi, who will also interact with party cadres and will brief them about the poll strategy,"

Notably, this will be the first high-level meeting after the State Congress unit announced that the party will formulate an alliance with the CPI (M) for the Assembly polls. In comparison to Congress, the BJP seems to be emerging strongly in the State as the party, which had received 10.16%t of votes in 2016 Assembly polls, increased it by 4 times by registering 40% vote in the 2019 General elections and winning 18 Lok Sabha seats.

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