Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP national president JP Nadda on Tuesday created a 15-member election management committee for Bengal, sources in the saffron party said adding the election committee for the 2024 general polls would comprise Shah, Nadda, State party  president Sukanto Majumdar, Opposition Leader Suvendu Adhikari and Amitabh Chakrabarty.

Among other leaders in the team are, former State presidents Dilip Ghosh and Rahul Sinha, MLAs, Locket Chatterjee, Agnimitra Paul, Dipak Burman, Jagannath Sarkar and Jyotirmoy Singh Mahato, sources said adding the reason behind inducting people from all the factions of the State party is to stem infighting that had been plaguing the BJP’s Bengal unit for the past couple of years.

The central leaders inducted in the team are Amit Malavya, Sumit Bansal, Magal Pandey and Asha Lockra, sources said adding the top leadership have asked the State counterparts to focus on winning 35 out of 42 Lok Sabha seats. None of the four central ministers from Bengal have been inducted in the team.

In an apparent view to politically sideline an emergent Left-Congress and create a binary of sorts the top BJP leadership have directed the State leadership to primarily target Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her "corrupt regime," inside sources said, adding a detailed report of all the scams perpetrated during the last one decade of the TMC rule would be created for campaigning purpose.

Accordingly, Shah and Nadda have also directed the State BJP leadership to use the social media as a major campaign platform for the next year’s elections Suvendu Adhikari said adding the corruption perpetrated by Banerjee’s regime would be the main focus.

“Amit Shah ji and JP Nadda ji have asked us to make all the effort to drive out this corrupt Government of Mamata Banerjee and for that he has given us a number of slogans … we have also been asked to use the social media platform at optimum level,” Adhikari said emerging from a key organizational meeting with the national leaders.

Quoting Shah he said “it was the Information Technology cell of the party that had given us immense success in the 2021 Assembly elections when we increased our tally from 2 to 78 seats.”