"Give Us 35 Seats And Mamata Banerjee Will Be Out": Amit Shah In Bengal
In 2019, the BJP won 18 seats in West Bengal. Kolkata: While the BJP is yet to kick off its campaign in West Bengal, the party is already in action mode with Union Home Minister Amit Shah setting the tone ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha election in the state. Mr Shah has set a target for the BJP - 35 of the state's 42 parliamentary seats. In 2019, the BJP won 18 seats. At a rally in Suri in Birbhum district, Mr Shah targeted Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Trinamool Congress's National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee and Anubrata Mondal - the powerful TMC district president for Birbhum who has delivered for the party all these years. With Mr Mondal in jail after being arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for his alleged connection with a cattle-smuggling probe, the BJP plans to exploit his absence from the ground politically. "The Didi (Mamata Banerjee) and the Bhatija (Abhishek Banerjee) are engaging in misrule and the only alternative is BJP. We have stopped cow...