Drawing lessons from Bihar debacle, BJP chief Amit Shah has decided to prominently rope in seniors for next round of polls for Bengal and other states.
Even as he is expected to address an election rally in Howrah on January 25, which party leaders believe could be the first one after he gets another full-fledged term as BJP president, Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari will be the first senior leader to address the first of the four rallies in West Bengal on January 18 at Dakshin Denajpur.
Originally, his rally was scheduled to be held at Malda but post communal riots, the state administration denied permission to the BJP, party sources said. The Mamata Banerjee government had also denied access to Malda a visiting BJP delegation to probe the communal riots.
(Published 13 January 2016, 20:08 IST)
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