Bengal panchayat polls: Mamata Banerjee to hit the campaign trail on Monday
Bengal panchayat polls: As per the schedule, the chief minister will start her campaign programme from Cooch Behar district in North Bengal with a public rally.
Bengal panchayat polls: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will, on Monday, kick-start her full-scale campaign for the July 8 panchayat elections in the state. As per the schedule, the chief minister will start her campaign programme from Cooch Behar district in North Bengal with a public rally.
Party sources said that she will be reaching Cooch Behar on Sunday night only.
A senior party leader said that after Cooch Behar, the chief minister is also likely to address a similar rally at Alipurduar district, the details of which are yet to be finalised.
"Recently, a meeting of the party`s top leadership was conducted at the chief ministers` residence to finalise the campaign strategy for the rural civic body polls. There the chief minister clearly directed all the top leaders to take the polls with equal seriousness like Lok Sabha and Assembly polls and hence take part in the campaign process with equal seriousness.
Also Read: BJP wants to do its politics through ED, says Stalin
"So going by the proverb `practice what you preach` the chief minister is herself participating in the campaign process this time," said a senior party leader who did not wish to be named.
According to political observers, the chief minister`s campaign kick-off from North Bengal is an indication of the importance that the ruling party leadership is stressing on the region considering that in 2019 Lok Sabha polls not a single constituency in the region came to the kitty of Trinamool Congress.
In fact, the party national general secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee too started his recently concluded mass-outreach programme from Cooch Behar district only. Even in the 2021 West Bengal polls, BJP`s performance from the constituencies in North Bengal was extraordinarily better than the other pockets in the state.
In fact, a section of the senior Trinamool Congress leadership has also admitted in private that the results of the panchayat elections in the rural civic body polls will be an indication of how the trend will be in the big battle of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
Get Latest Business News, Stock Market Updates and Videos; Check your tax outgo through Income Tax Calculator and save money through our Personal Finance coverage. Check Business Breaking News Live on Zee Business Twitter and Facebook. Subscribe on YouTube.
RECOMMENDED STORIES
SBI 444-day FD vs Union Bank of India 333-day FD: Know maturity amount on Rs 4 lakh and Rs 8 lakh investments for general and senior citizens
Power of Compounding: Salary Rs 25,000 per month; is it possible to create over Rs 2.60 crore corpus; understand it through calculations
New Year Pick by Anil Singhvi: This smallcap stock can offer up to 75% return in long term - Check targets
Power of Compounding: How many years it will take to reach Rs 2 crore corpus if your monthly SIP is Rs 3,000, Rs 4,000, or Rs 5,000
Retirement Calculator: 40 years of age, Rs 50,000 monthly expenses; what should be retirement corpus and monthly investment
02:54 PM IST