Kolkata: Sending out a strong message of going on warpath against the Trinamul Congress in the state, BJP president Amit Shah asserted on Monday that the party will touch the sky only when it will be able to rule the states where it is not in power now. Mr Shah arrived in Kolkata on Sunday night on a three-day visit to expand the party’s organisation.
On Monday morning, Mr Shah, accompanied by Central BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya and Union minister Babul Supriyo visited Swami Vivekananda’s ancestral house in north Kolkata on the occasion of his 125th anniversary of his Chicago address.
After paying floral tributes there, Mr Shah came to the ICCR auditorium where he convened a meeting with state BJP leaders, including state president Dilip Ghosh, to strengthen the party’s organisation in the state.
When he asked the state leaders about their activities, many of them complained of the Trinamul Congress’ attack on the party’s rank-and-file across districts, according to sources.
In reply, Mr Shah reminded them that his three-day visit was not aimed at paying heed to their stories of facing attacks, sources revealed adding that he made it clear that he wanted to know where they retaliated the ruling party. The BJP president also cautioned the state unit against complacency.
He observed that there was no scope to imagine that the party has reached its goal.
According to him, there are many states, including West Bengal, in the country where the BJP is yet to come to the power, sources elaborated.
Mr Shah told them that the BJP will succeed to touch the sky when it would rule those states, sources disclosed.
He instructed the state BJP to reach out its 40 lakh members and to create an additional votebank of around 1.5 crores. On Tuesday Mr Shah will meet the BJP workers who became targets of the Trinamul’s attack apart from meeting the intellectuals of the city. On September 13 he would attend a press meet besides attending a meeting with a chamber of commerce.
On a day when Mr Shah convened the meeting, chief minister Mamata Banerjee left the city for North Bengal.
The itinerary of both of them was fixed earlier although. Ms Banerjee reached North Bengal. She will attend the second round of dialogue on the unrest in Darjeeling at Uttar Kanya on Tuesday.
