Kolkata, March 2 Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will launch different segments of the BJP's 'Poriborton Yatra' (Change Campaign) in West Bengal on Monday afternoon, as the party intensifies its campaign ahead of the 2026 assembly elections.
Shah is scheduled to flag off the padyatra (foot march) from Raidighi in South 24 Parganas at 2 pm, while Singh will launch another segment of the statewide campaign from Howrah around the same time.
Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will flag off the yatra from Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas at 2 pm, and BJP national president Nitin Nabin will launch the program from Malda and Islampur.
Following the dramatic surge in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal and the setback in the 2021 assembly elections, the state BJP launched the 5,000-km 'Poriborton Yatra' on Sunday from multiple districts, in a carefully planned effort to revive momentum, strengthen opposition against the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), and test its revamped grassroots organization.
Launching the yatra on Sunday from Cooch Behar, Nabin called for 'poriborton' (change) in the upcoming assembly elections, asserting that the BJP would take its message to every booth and household across the state.
