Amit Shah to arrive in West Bengal today, scheduled to address rally in Kolkata
Kolkata, Aug 11 (IBNS): BJP chief Amit Shah will arrive in Kolkata on Saturday where he is scheduled to address a Yuva Swabhiman Samavesh rally.
The entire episode of his proposed visit to Kolkata has turned contentious when the Bharatiya Janata Party claimed that he was not given permission to hold the rally in the city by the Kolkata Police.
The Kolkata Police, however, granted permission to Shah for the rally.
Amit Shah tweeted: "Tomorrow, I will be in West Bengal to address the "Yuva Swabhiman Samavesh" organised by @BJYM in Kolkata."
Tomorrow, I will be in West Bengal to address the "Yuva Swabhiman Samavesh" organised by @BJYM in Kolkata. pic.twitter.com/52DRi3V79m
— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) August 10, 2018
The rally is taking place at a time when the BJP and the ruling Trinamool Congress are engaged in a battle over the NRC issue in Assam.
India recently announced exclusion of about four million people from citizenship in the northeastern state of Assam bordering Bangladesh after a draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) was published.
Those excluded from the list could not prove their citizenship by providing valid documents and they are mostly Muslim immigrants who came to Assam before 1971, when millions fled Bangladesh’s war of independence.
The TMC has been opposing the move of the Centre.
Shah and his BJP are aiming to increase seats in West Bengal where it had clinched 2 in 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
2019 is scheduled to host the Lok Sabha polls.
Meanwhile, ahead of the rally, the ruling TMC in West Bengal put up banners adjacent to the banners of BJP opposing the rally.
Image: TMC placing anti-BJP banners adjacent to the banners of the BJP Rally in Kolkata (Photo by Subhadeep Sardar)
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