SHAH OUTLINES BJP ACTION PLAN FOR BENGAL POLLS, PROJECTS DILIP GHOSH AS KEY FACE

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday outlined an action plan for the BJP's West Bengal unit while reviewing its preparedness for the assembly polls due early next year.

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah

Addressing the party's public representatives, both past and present, Shah sought to project a unified front, while indicating former state president Dilip Ghosh as one of the main faces of the saffron camp for the elections.

Ghosh, who has largely stayed away from the forefront of the BJP’s activities in the state over the past several months, was also invited to the closed-door meeting attended by the party's MPs, MLAs, civic body councillors and organisational portfolio holders.

Shah held the meeting to take stock of the BJP West Bengal unit's preparedness for the assembly polls next year.

He reportedly held a separate meeting with Ghosh, alongside another former state president Sukanta Majumdar, incumbent Samik Bhattacharya, and the state’s leader of the opposition, Suvendu Adhikari, indicating bridging of gaps between the party's old guns and the newer ones.