PM Modi to address twin rallies in West Bengal today
Kolkata, Feb 2 (IBNS): With few weeks to go for the 2019 General Elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a couple of rallies in West Bengal on Saturday.
The two rallies will be held at Thakurnagar and Durgapur.
Modi and his party, the BJP, are trying to reach out to the Motua community in Thakurnagar ahead of the crucial polls.
In Durgapur, the Prime Minister will be a part of a programme of the rail electrification Andal-Sainthia-Pakur-Malda and Khana-Sainthia sections.
He tweeted, "At a programme in Durgapur, the rail electrification of Andal-Sainthia-Pakur-Malda and Khana-Sainthia Sections, and the Hijli-Narayangarh third line will be dedicated to the nation. These works will strengthen the transport sector in the East and Northeast."
At a programme in Durgapur, the rail electrification of Andal-Sainthia-Pakur-Malda and Khana-Sainthia Sections, and the Hijli-Narayangarh third line will be dedicated to the nation.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) February 1, 2019
These works will strengthen the transport sector in the East and Northeast.
The Thakurnagar rally will be held at 11 am while Modi will address the Durgapur crowd at 1 pm.
Modi visits West Bengal following violence in Amit Shah rally:
The Prime Minister is visiting the state just days after a violence erupted in east Midnapore district where BJP national president Amit Shah held a rally.
The TMC workers allegedly attacked several vehicles after Shah concluded the rally.
The state BJP claimed several of its workers were injured and also arrested by the police.
The incident escalated the ongoing political tussle between the BJP and ruling TMC in the state.
What BJP eyes in West Bengal?
While West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo, Mamata Banerjee, gave a call to win all 42 Lok Sabha seats in the forthcoming elections, Shah set a target for his party leaders to bag 26 seats from the eastern state.
Though the BJP had won just two seats in the 2014 General Elections, the saffron outfit in last few bypolls improved its vote percentage to become the main opposition to the TMC, relegating CPI-M and Congress to the third and fourth positions respectively.
The TMC had won 34 seats in the last Lok Sabha elections.
Image credit: Narendra Modi Facebook
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