Nitin Nabin tells Bengal BJP to make 'micro-level planning' to oust Mamata from power

New Delhi: BJP president Nitin Nabin on Tuesday asked the party's West Bengal unit to reach out to people across the state with "micro-level planning" for every booth, keeping the local issues at the centre of the party's election campaign to dislodge the Mamata Banerjee government from power. 

Holding meetings with party leaders and workers in Kolkata, Nabin also asked them to intensify the poll campaign with a special focus on constituencies where the BJP lagged in the 2021 Assembly elections, sources said.

Nabin on Tuesday reached West Bengal on a two-day visit to review the party's poll preparedness and fine-tune its ground strategy for the Assembly polls, slated to be held in two phases on April 23 and April 29. The results will be out on May 4.

"Nitin Nabin is not visiting Bengal only to review the party's poll preparedness. He has gone there to shape the party's poll campaign into a new 'Chakravyuh' (strategic battle formation) with his political experience," a source in the BJP said.

On the first day of his visit, the BJP chief held extensive "strategic meetings" with party leaders and workers in Kolkata, and gave them necessary instructions to sharpen the BJP's poll campaign in the state, asking them not to leave any stone unturned.

"He asked the party leaders and workers to intensify public outreach across the state with micro-level planning for every booth, keeping the local issues at the centre of the party's poll campaign to dislodge the Mamata Banerjee government from power," the source said.

Sources said Nabin also held a meeting with the party's digital and social media teams and urged them to further expand and deepen their outreach by taking the BJP's promise of bringing a change in West Bengal to every household.

He also held a meeting with the party's narrative team and provided his guidance, the sources added.

This is Nabin's third visit to Bengal since he was elected as the 12th national president of the BJP on January 20.

The sources said that after polling is held in Kerala on April 9, the BJP chief will camp in Bengal to lead the party's election campaign and strategy. PTI