Phase-3 turnout points to rising BJP trend in East: Dr Jitendra
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KOLKATA: Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh said here that Phase-3 voter turnout of on Tuesday points to rising BJP trend in West Bengal, and in fact in the entire East.
Commenting on the heavy voter turnout, Dr. Jitendra said, the voter turnout will continue to be high or even higher in the subsequent four phases in which the West Bengal Lok Sabha constituencies are scheduled to go to polls.
Pertinent to mention that West Bengal like Uttar Pradesh is having Lok Sabha elections in all the seven phases to elect members for 42 Lok Sabha Constituencies. While in 2019, out of 42 Lok Sabha Constituencies, BJP had won 18 seats against 22 seats won by TMC and 2 seats won by the Congress, this time the BJP leadership is aiming to win 30 to 35 out of 42 Lok Sabha Constituencies.
Dr. Jitendra claimed that as far Phase-5 is concerned, which is assigned to him and which goes to polls on May 20, in all the seven seats of this phase the BJP is heading for a victory and in any case in six out of seven seats the BJP victory is absolutely assured.
There has been a progressive rise in the vote share of BJP in the successive elections ever since Prime Minister Narenda Modi took over in 2014, said Dr. Jitendra Singh and added that in the last election the BJP vote share which was at one time in single digit percentage rose up to nearly 40%. He said, this progressively rising trend will be witnessed even when the results are out on 4th of June.
Attributing his optimism about the BJP’s spectacular success in the Lok Sabha election in West Bengal to the penetration of Modi’s outreach to the deprived sections of society regardless of vote bank consideration, Dr. Jitendra said, the people of West Bengal are highly awakened and enlightened, and, therefore, they are able to draw comparison with the other States like UP and Gujarat where most of the Welfare schemes targeting women, farmers, youth and the poor have achieved 100% saturation targets, whereas the same has not been possible in this State because of lack of cooperation and lack of facilitation by the TMC-led State Government.
