With an attempt to chalk out the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) strategy for the upcoming Lok Sabha election, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president J.P. Nadda on Tuesday arrived in Kolkata and held meetings with the party’s State leadership. The Home Minister and the BJP president set up an election monitoring team with 15 members, which includes Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari and State BJP president Sukanta Majumdar.
The ten members of the election management team are drawn from State BJP while five are central BJP leaders which include Sunil Bansal, Amit Malviya. Mangal Pandey, Satish Dhond, and Asha Lakra.
During the meeting with BJP leaders, Mr. Shah urged that the leaders remain prepared to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha election. While leaders like Sukanata Majumdar, Dilip Ghosh, and Locket Chatterjee who are part of the monitoring team are Lok Sabha MPs, leaders like Suvendu Adhikari and Rahul Sinha, who are part of the committees are not Parliamentarians. Four MPs who are Ministers of State in the Narendra Modi-led government – Subhas Sarkar, Nisith Pramanik, Santanu Thakur, and John Barla – have not been included in the election management committee.
