Kolkata: After being newly elected as the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Nitin Naveen has begun preparations for the upcoming assembly elections. According to reports, the BJP president may visit West Bengal at the end of this month to review the party’s preparations.
Party sources said on Wednesday that before the upcoming assembly elections in several states, he may hold a series of meetings with the state leadership to assess the strength of the party organization and review election preparations. Naveen took oath as the BJP national president on Tuesday, a day after he was elected to the post.
According to sources, he had already held discussions with the West Bengal unit even before his election. After filing his nomination, Nitin Naveen met with West Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya, Balurghat MP Sukanta Majumdar, and party leaders Amitav Chakraborty, Sunil Bansal, Mangal Pandey, and Amit Malviya on Monday night. Sources said that the new party president plans to meet with leaders at all levels of the state organization.
A senior BJP leader from the state said that after Nitin Naveen’s arrival, several meetings will be held with the state leadership as well as leaders of various ‘morchas’, cells, and district organizations. He said that the party’s position on the ongoing special intensive revision exercise in West Bengal is likely to be discussed.
Reacting to this, senior Trinamool Congress leader Joy Prakash Majumdar said that such visits would have little impact. He said that earlier, BJP central leaders used to come here and try to win elections, but they failed.
TMC leader Joy Majumdar further added that when JP Nadda became the BJP national president, he had said that he would visit West Bengal twice to assess the party organization. But when he realized that there was no hope for the BJP in Bengal, he returned from here. He also said that the new central leader is welcome in the state, but like his predecessors, he too will have to leave very soon after losing the upcoming assembly elections.
