BJP looks for direct fight with TMC in Civic Body elections in Bengal
Kolkata, 11 March (HS): In order to prevent unnecessary splitting of votes in the coming Kolkata Municipal Corporation and other Civic Body elections in West Bengal, the BJP has reportedly decided to convince the voters through a mass awareness programme not to waste their votes by supporting those parties which do not have any prospect of winning majority like the Cpi-m led Left Front and the Congress.
Though such a move, if successful, would further intensify the electoral battle between BJP and the ruling Trinamool ,Congress,it would also go a long way to help the voters to choose among the two possible candidates instead of many who had no chance of winning the fight,said sources at BJP state headquarters here today.
Referring to the party’s new statewide campaign called ‘Aar Noi Annayay'(No more wrong doings), launched by Union Home minister Amit Shah on 1 March during his one day visit to the city, the sources said as part of the initiative thousands of BJP workers from the village level were visiting every household in the state as well in Kolkatas to apprise the members of the usefulness of voting for BJP, if not to TMC and no other party since they would be considered as useless because of lack of their chances of winning in the wake of the steadily depleting support base in every corner of the state.
Further to drive their point home, the sources quoting from the latest political data said during the last Lok Sabha elections in 2019 when the percentage of votes for BJP had increased to nearly 30 per cent from a mere 8 per cent a few years ago,those for the Cpi-.m had dwindled to as low as 6.28 per cent and of Congress to further low at only about 5.76 per cent with no hope for any immediate recovery.
Moreover with further widening of its vote bank among the urban people vis a vis the ruling TMC,the BJP candidates had every chance to win most of the seats in majority of 140 wards under KMC during the elections slated for next month, the sources hoped.
