NEW DELHI:  The BJP is prepared to send its central leaders to West Bengal to run for office in the state's panchayat elections and the Lok Sabha elections in 2024.

Source said, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, National President J.P. Nadda, Home Minister Amit Shah and other central leaders will campaign in the state for the panchayat elections.

The source added that the party will organise 40 significant rallies throughout Bengal. In January, Nadda will launch the campaign in Nandigram. Later, meetings would be held all around the state by the prime minister, Shah, and other leaders.

The panchayat elections will be crucial because both the Trinamool Congress and the opposition BJP would use them as a "litmus test" before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

The BJP was successful in winning 18 of West Bengal's 42 Lok Sabha seats in the general elections of 2019. The Trinamool Congress, led by Mamata Banerjee, won the state Assembly elections in 2021 with an overwhelming majority, marking its third straight victory.

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