Learning bitter lessons from Delhi Assembly elections, the Bengal BJP will desist from making hate speeches in the run up to the Statewide municipal elections, party insiders say.
Though the party will not jettison polarization as its political mainstay it will try to focus on good governance, sources said. Most of the schemes brought in by the central Government during the last six years or so will be highlighted in the elections they said.
Apart from this the party will also bank on the good governance it provided in the municipalities run by it other states. Civic elections are likely to take place sometime in the month of April-May.
On whether the party will try to highlight the efficacy of the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act or for that matter National
Register for Citizens or even National Population Register a senior State committee leader said “municipal elections are fought on the basis of civic amenities being provided or promised to be provided. Though the CAA is the part of a larger issue the party will like to stick to development as its main plank.”
That the party has not been in power in the State and in most of the municipalities and corporations will work in its favour as “our not being in power in municipal boards will rob the Trinamool Congress of the stick to beat us on the issue of non-performance whereas we will be able to highlight the common people’s bitter experience during TMC’s rule,” another party leader said adding however that the party workers will not however be stopped from using CAA in whisper campaigns.
“Where CAA is not required we will not raise it but where it is required we will definitely raise it even during campaigns,” said another leader adding “there are many municipalities where Bangladeshi refugees are in great numbers and they identify themselves with the CAA-NRC cause. In such places we will definitely raise this issue.”
Again there are some other places where infiltration is a problem and the people have been suffering due to the infiltrators, “in such cases too we will use CAA and NRC,” he maintained adding however that in general the party will desist from strongly worded campaigns.