Kolkata, March 5 – The mega rally organized by the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at Brigade Parade Ground in central Kolkata, which is scheduled to be addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi later this month as part of the party’s campaign build-up for the upcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal later this year, may be moved up by a day.
"Initially, it was decided that the event would be held on March 15. However, at that time, we made it clear that the schedule was subject to possible last-minute changes from the Prime Minister's Office. According to the latest and tentative schedule, the rally may now be held on March 14," said a state committee member of the BJP in West Bengal.
According to him, the Prime Minister is expected to arrive in Kolkata on the night of March 13, and after addressing the rally on the afternoon of March 14, he is likely to return to New Delhi later that day.
The rally, which will be addressed by the Prime Minister, will also mark the end of the ongoing Parivartan Yatra organized by the West Bengal unit of the BJP, which had started on March 2.
Several senior BJP leaders and prominent members of the Union Cabinet, including Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, and the BJP’s national president Nitin Nabin, have already participated in different phases of the Parivartan Yatra.
He also said that the state leadership is simultaneously working to finalize the list of recommended candidates for the 294 Assembly constituencies in the state and forward the same to the central leadership so that the latter can take a final decision in the matter.
"This time, the state unit of the party will send two separate lists for each of the 294 Assembly constituencies in West Bengal to the party’s central leadership. One list will contain three names of preferred candidates, while the other list will include three names that are not preferred at all as candidates," the state committee member said.
At the same time, he added that the state leadership this time is attempting to focus on recommending names of party candidates in a more organized and structured manner by giving greater emphasis to leaders emerging from grassroots levels rather than celebrities, especially those coming from the silver-screen world.
