Kolkata, Jan 22 (IANS) Successive month-end visits to West Bengal, first by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s newly-elected national president Nitin Nabin and then by the Union Home Minister Amit Shah this month, will focus exclusively on internal organisational meetings on the party’s strategy for the forthcoming Assembly elections in the state scheduled later this year.

“None of them, especially the Union Home Minister, will hold a single public rally during their Bengal visits this month. Both of them will be focusing on internal organisational meetings with the state BJP leaders on the strategy to be adopted and state-specific issues to be highlighted for the Assembly polls in the state scheduled this year,” said a member of the BJP’s state committee in West Bengal.

Nabin is scheduled to arrive in Kolkata on January 27 for a two-day visit. On that day, he will be holding a closed-door meeting with the top state leadership of the BJP in West Bengal.

The next day, he will have a scheduled programme at Burdwan in East Burdwan district, and his detailed programme there is yet to be announced.

On the same evening, he will return to New Delhi.

The Union Home Minister will undertake a single-day visit to West Bengal on January 30. Like Nabin, he will also concentrate on closed-door organisational meetings instead of addressing any public rally or participating in any roadshow during that one-day visit.

“The entire schedules of both Nabin and the Union Home Minister will be organisationally activity-oriented. The dates for the West Bengal Assembly elections are likely to be announced by the end of February or the beginning of March this year. Before that, both our party’s national president and the Union Home Minister will be focusing on an internal meeting on election strategy,” the state committee member said.

To recall, HM Shah made a year-end visit to West Bengal last month, and even during that visit, he avoided public rallies or roadshows and concentrated more on internal organisational meetings. His only public programme during the visit was a press conference.

–IANS

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