STATE TIMES NEWS
KOLKATA: Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh on Tuesday convened a joint meeting of the election core groups of seven Lok Sabha constituencies of West Bengal going to poll in Phase-5 on 20th May.
Soon after his arrival here this morning after being assigned the charge of Phase 5 Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal, Dr. Jitendra Singh got in touch with the election teams of all the seven constituencies of Phase-5 which included Howrah, Uluberia, Serampore, Hooghly, Arambagh, Bangaon and Barrackpore.
He said, since he had just landed in Kolkata and not given an advance notice of a meeting, therefore instead of disturbing the Karyakartas during their respective field work, it was decided to conduct an initial introductory meeting from Kolkata in virtual mode.
After a detailed meeting lasting over two hours, Dr. Jitendra Singh said, from tomorrow onwards he will embark on a cycle of constituency-wise meeting of the Election Group of each of the individual constituencies and would try to complete this cycle within next few days, following which he would along with others senior colleagues start addressing and focussing on specific issues related to each of the constituencies in order to ensure that BJP is able to win all these seven seats.
Out of a total of 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, in the last election BJP had won 18 while 22 went to TMC and Congress won 2 seats. Among the constituencies going to poll in the Vth Phase, out of seven, BJP had won three namely Hooghly, Barrackpore, and Bangaon, the other four constituencies of Howrah, Uluberia, Serampore and Arambagh were bagged by All India Trinamool Congress(AITC).
Dr. Jitendra said, this time the Party has changed the strategy and the candidates contesting on some of these seats are also new. He said, he was, therefore, hopeful that BJP would successfully win all the seven seats.
Dr. Singh said, compared to earlier elections, the voter today is much more inclined towards the welfare policies and welfare agenda of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in spite of the fact that the Mamata Banerjee government in the State has deliberately not allowed the benefits of the Modi schemes to percolate to the last man. Notwithstanding this, he said, people are now fed up with the anarchic rule and the culture of violence coupled with corruption sought to be propagated by the TMC over the last several years.
It may be recalled that the BJP High Command has this time strategized the special focus and a concentrated approach on each of the 42 Lok Sabha constituencies of West Bengal. The Party has also deputed senior leaders for management of different segments and phases of the election.
