Mission Bengal: Host of BJP ministers, including Amit Shah, to visit state

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ With eye on the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections, the BJP has been bolstering its campaign in the state on war footing, deploying Union ministers, a deputy CM and central leaders and assigning them six to seven Lok Sabha constituencies each.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be in the state this weekend, while his colleagues Gajendra Shekhawat, Sanjeev Balyan, Prahlad Patel, Arjun Munda and Mansukh Mandaviya will be visiting in the next few days, sources in the party said on Thursday.

Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya and Madhya Pradesh cabinet minister Narottam Mishra have also been assigned responsibilities in West Bengal, the sources said. When contacted, Union minister Patel confirmed that he has been given the charge of the party’s poll preparations in north Bengal. All these leaders will attend a meeting on December 19 chaired by Shah, the sources said.