The West Bengal BJP on Wednesday said it has cancelled the rally of former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Murshidabad district as the district administration denied permission to land his chopper.
Chouhan, a BJP national vice-president, was scheduled to attend two rallies — one at Baharampur in Murshidabad district and the other at Kharagpur in West Midnapore.
It has been decided that Chouhan will now attend the rally at Kharagpur and will go there by road from the Kolkata airport. Accusing the State administration of indulging in “vendetta politics”, BJP State general secretary Sayantan Basu said the TMC cannot stop the “march of the BJP by denying permission to land choppers.” Earlier UP CM Yogi Adityanath, Union Minister’s choppers were denied permission to land in Bengal.