A pumped up BJP would take inspiration from its performance in the just-concluded elections in the four States where it almost demolished the Congress and try to surge ahead in West Bengal, Varun Gandhi the party’s Central observer for this State has said.
Insisting that the party would put up candidates from all the 42 seats the visibly up BJP MP on Wednesday said the primary goal of his party in the State was to cross the 1999 mark when its sent two Central Ministers — Satyabrata Mukherjee and Tapan Sikdar — from Bengal Gandhi said the saffron party would “be looking forward to better the election results of 1999 when we won two seats from the State.”
The BJP had recently fared impressively in the Howrah municipal polls in the sense that it bagged two seats defeating the sitting left Front Mayor.
Curiously the saffron MP who had earlier been critical of the Trinamool Congress Government said the main electoral plank of his party this time round would be development” adding the issues regarding alliances in the State would be handled by the central leadership.
The BJP leader who had in an earlier meeting said his party was eyeing at organising at least 100 public meetings in the rural areas of the State said the party was “planning to hold two huge rallies in West Bengal.”