PM Modi and CM Mamta Banerjee rally collides: Bengal Election 2021

  • | Saturday | 20th March, 2021

The saffron party made deep inroads in West Bengal by winning 18 of its 42 Lok Sabha seats in 2019 - only four less than ruling TMC. The BJP wants to project it as an alternative to the Trinamool Congress which is ruling the state since 2011 under Mamata Banerjee’s leadership.    

Ahead assembly pools in the state of Bengal, between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Trinamool Congress president Mamata Banerjee today are gearing up for another face-off when the two leaders will address election rallies in Kharagpur to bolster their parties` campaign for the upcoming Assembly polls.

As per the schedule announced by the BJP, PM Modi will be addressing the public meeting in Kharagpur at 11:15 AM. This will be his second visit to the poll-bound state in a week and fifth since January. Earlier on Thursday, he addressed a rally Purulia.

Mamata Banerjee, who is facing one of the most difficult political challenges of her life, will address three public meetings in Kharagpur today. The Bengal CM is facing a stiff challenge from BJP in the coming state polls after helming West Bengal for a decade. Mamata in her rallies is leaving no stone unturned to attack the BJP and its leadership, calling the saffron party a "political virus".

The BJP and ruling Trinamool Congress, headed by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, are spearheading an intense election campaign in West Bengal with the saffron party deploying its enviable political machinery to capture power in the state which it has never ruled.

 


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