Buoyed by the encouraging results in the general elections and with an apparent eye on the coming civic elections as well as the State polls, two years hence the Bengal BJP has lined up a bevy of prgrammes to strengthen its organisational set up in the State.
To begin with, the party has decideed to ask for a major Railway station, the state-of-art Rajar Haat township off Kolkata and the Bagdogra Airport in Siliguri to be named after late founder of Jan Sangh Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee.
“But for Dr Mookerjee the whole region of Bengal of which Mamata Banerjee is the Chief Minister now would have gone into Pakistan. So it is our bounden duty to acknowledge his contribution towards creation of West Bengal of today,” State BJP president Rahul Sinha said adding his party would organise a whole lot of programmes between June 23 and July 6 “the day when he was martyred and the day when he was born.”
Informing that the party was flooded with membership requests, Sinha said the BJP would apart from remembering Dr Mookerjee through street corner meetings, seminars, blood donation camps and door-to-door campaigns “place a demand before the Central Government to name a major Railway Station in the State, Rajar Haat Township and the Bagdogra Airport after the great son of India.”
The BJP, which displayed a show of strength on Thursday by holding Statewide gherao of police stations and organising a succesful dawn-to-dusk bandh at Basirhat, would organise a “save Bengal rally” on June 23, he said.
Sinha’s declarations came a day before a BJP central team comprising SS Ahluwalia, Meenakshi lekhi, Mukkhtar Abbas Naqwi, Siddharth Nath Singh and Babul Supriyo was to visit Basirhat where 22 party men were injured after being fired at by the Trinamool activists when they were celebrating Narendra Modi’s swearing-in a few days ago.
The central team was likely to meet the State Chief Secretary onSaturday after visiting the affected people. Apart from the central team three other State teams would visit otherareas like Gosaba in South 24 Parganas, Nayagram in West Midnapore andlaudoha in Durgapur to inquire into the reported attacks on the partymen by Trinamool activists.
The heightened activities of the BJP comes in the wake of itsremarkable performance in the elections when the party pushed up its vote percentage from a mere 4 percent in 2009 to about 17 percentwinning two MP seats notwithstanding reports of rampant threats, violence, booth-capturing and rigging by the rulng party.
