To highlight that only the face of the government changed but development has not yet come to West Bengal, they will adopt the slogan “Poribartan nahin, patan” (no transformation but decay),.
New Delhi : The violence in Malda presented an unexpected vehicle for the BJP to drive the election campaign in West Bengal in a way they have expertise in, the Hindutva Politics.
In the recent development in this direction, Bharatiya Janata Party intends to create a bogey of the “Hindu refugees” in the state as its campaign against the large-scale infiltration of the Bangladeshi Muslims enjoying protection of both ruling Trinamul Congress Party of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the Left Parties, in spite that there are no refugees in West Bengal.
BJP has planned to organise the “Hindu refugee conferences” in 75 Assembly constituencies, as they (Hindu Refugees) are mostly concentrated in these constituencies.
The agenda of these conferences, which will run from February 21 to 29, is to mobilise its supporters who are mostly the Hindus who escaped from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) due to persecution and settled down in West Bengal by highlighting the harassment they face from the locals who do not accept them despite their settlement for decades.
If they are refugees, it is impossible that all of them are voters, hence the tactic adopted to call them refugees is to emphasise to the voting rights given to the illegal Bangladeshi migrants in West Bengal.
During the same period, the party also plans to organise its booth-level meetings in most of the 294 constituencies, having assigned 15 to 20 party workers to each of the 77,000 polling booths to campaign since last one year.
The strategy for the Muslim dominated 15,000 to 17,000 booths will also be worked out during the booth level meetings, the party sources said.
The booth-level strategy meetings will be preceded by the launch of “Booth Chalo Abhiyan” from February 11 to 20 to mobilise the party workers in addition to those already assigned the booth management duties.
The BJP’s national secretary Sidharth Nath Singh, in-charge of Bengal affairs, said the party would project TMC as a mirror image of the CPM who used the same muscle and gun power that the Left did to terrorise the people for over three decades to remain in power. The BJP’s poll plank will focus on “Bengal pride, culture, socialism and industrialisation.”
BJP is going to ask for votes claiming that nothing has changed; it is the same 34 years of Left rule that has continued for the past five years.
To highlight that only the face of the government changed but development has not yet come to West Bengal, they will adopt the slogan “Poribartan nahin, patan” (no transformation but decay), source added.
Suspecting that both the ruling TMC and Left would get indulged in rigging in the elections by threatening away the legitimate voters and then casting votes on their behalf, the BJP has already written to the Election Commission to deploy only Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) electronic voting machines for ensuring free and fair elections.
