BJP targets 20 of Kolkata's 28 seats

Continuing on his agenda to take stock of the BJP West Bengal unit's preparedness for the Assembly polls scheduled early next year, Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday held a meeting with the party's public representatives, past and present, at a hotel in Salt Lake here.

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Shah also held a closed-door meeting with BJP leaders, ministers, MLAs and even candidates, who had lost in the last Assembly elections, setting an ambitious target of winning 200 seats in the next West Bengal Assembly polls. Addressing the gathering, Mr Shah asserted that the party's growth trajectory made the target achievable. "We want 20 of the 28 seats in greater Kolkata. If we can move from three seats to 77, why can't we go from 77 to 200?" he asked, urging leaders and workers to intensify grassroots mobilisation.