BJP seeks 35 seats for Modi to make a Sonar Bangla

Union home minister Amit Shah and Bharatiya Janata Party president JP Nadda were in Kolkata on December 26. West Bengal is a priority state for the BJP high command to increase the number of seats in the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls of 2024. Immediately after elections ended recently in five states, Amit Shah visited West Bengal and gave a pep talk to the party workers. December 26 was Veer Bal Diwas to mark the martyrdom of Guru Gobind Singh’s younger sons. Prime Minister Narendra Modi too paid tributes to the bravery and ideals of Mata Gujri, Guru Gobind Singh, and the four sahebzadas, while Shah and Nadda were in Kolkata for the same.

Amit Shah addressed a meeting of BJP Bengal’s social media and IT cell workers. Sources said Shah told them that in 2024 the BJP will win more than 35 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal. Shah made it clear that in ⁠West Bengal the BJP will contest the election banking on its social media strength because the regional media does not carry the message of the party, “fearing Didi”. “⁠If you all social media warriors decide, you can have more reach than any channel or newspaper and no one can stop you from making Modi win. That is the reason you have the biggest responsibilities,” said Shah, according to the sources.

Taking a dig at West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Shah said that “before 2015, Didi used to take the BJP lightly”. He also took aim at the alleged prevailing corruption in the Mamata Banerjee government, Shah said that “the cut money collected from Bengal is used to buy palatial mansions in foreign countries but the same people roam around here with hawai chappal. People will no longer be hoodwinked by these optics. People will now ask to account for everything”.

The minister didn’t stop there. He went on to say that ⁠”Bengal used to lead the nation in every aspect and the same state is today known for its cut money, syndicate, infiltration, dynasticism, corruption, and bomb blasts”.

“When Didi ousted the communists in Bengal, people were happy and hoped that the condition of Bengal would be better. But what she gave instead was worse than that. ⁠Stacks of currency notes worth Rs 50 crore have been recovered from their ministers. But Didi calls him a sipahi of the party. ⁠Didi’s MP shares her password with businessmen in exchange for gifts and now she is trying to safeguard that MP. How many questions were asked about the poor in Bengal? They will never do that because the poor cannot give them expensive gifts

Her MP also mimics the Vice President. The UPA government gave Rs 2,09,000 crore to Bengal in 10 years and Modi ji gave Rs 7,17,000 crore in 9 years. Didi will have to account for every rupee,” he said, according to the sources.

Praising the BJP workers of Bengal, Shah said that the “karyakartas in Bengal have made the biggest sacrifices in history and even attained martyrdom and the karyakartas from Kashmir to Kanyakumari will stand by you…The struggle of party workers has led the entire nation to ⁠look at the outcome the BJP has achieved…We did not have a single MLA but today we have 77 of them in Bengal and 20 Lok Sabha members. If we can achieve 77 seats from 0 then we can form a government with a two-third majority also”.

“Give 35 seats to Modi ji from the land of Syama Prasad Mookerjee,” Amit Shah told the workers. “Modi ji will make Sonar Bangla.” He added that forming a BJP government in West Bengal would mean the end of infiltration, cow smuggling, and the citizenship to religiously persecuted people through the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

Taking another dig at Mamata Banerjee, Shah said that under the leadership of PM Modi the entire nation is progressing fast, but “under Didi the growth of West Bengal has stagnated because she is afraid that if the development schemes of Modi ji are rolled out in Bengal then the popularity of the BJP will increase”.

With inputs from News18