As BJP's sharp political conflict with the Trinamool Congress goes on unabated and the party cadre turn restless, the BJP national president JP Nadda is to visit the State on January 9 to address the newly formed state executive and to sort out internal differences.
The two-day tour to West Bengal is significant as Municipal corporation elections in Bidhan Nagar, Chandannagar, Asansol and Siliguri are to be held on January 22.
Post-Assembly elections, TMC has poached many BJP MLAs who have moved back to Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee. TMC has further fortified itself by winning all bypolls in the state and thereby sentout a message to those who went to the BJP before TMC's Assembly victory.
The BJP state unit has been coping with internal dissensions over appointments and other issues.
According to party leaders, Nadda is visiting the state to assure the BJP unit of full backing by the central leadership and also to set discipline among leaders.
The BJP president would work out a fresh political programme with the state leaders to counter TMC and to give a morale booster to the party workers who are being intimidated by the ruling party, they said.
TMC emerged as the largest party in the recently concluded Kolkata Municipal Corporation elections, gaining victory in 134 out of a total 144 wards of the local body.
BJP ran second in the polls, winning in only three wards. Left and Congress won two wards each.