BJP forms 15-member team to supervise Bengal LS campaign

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday announced the formation of a 15-member election management committee to oversee Lok Sabha campaign in West Bengal.

- SUPROTIM MUKHERJEE

The party announced this on the day Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP national president Jagat Prakash Nadda came to Kolkata to take stock of the readiness of the State unit. The BJP is targeting to win 35 out of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal in the coming polls. In the 2019 general elections, the BJP had set a target to win 22 seats and bagged 18.

The election management committee comprises 10 Bengal BJP leaders along with the four Central leaders who would supervise the electoral battle. Both Amit Shah and Nadda are members of this committee. Interestingly, the name of Anupam Hazra, the only representative of the State in J.P. Nadda’s national committee who holds the rank of national secretary does not figure in this list.

The core members of the committee are Amit Shah, J.P. Nadda, Satish Dhond, state party chief Sukanta Majumdar, MP and former state president Dilip Ghosh, the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari, Rahul Sinha, Amitabh Chakraborty, Satish Dhaund, Mangal Pandey and Asha Lakra.