BJP announces state election team for Bengal Assembly polls 2021

New Delhi: For the upcoming 2021 Assembly elections in West Bengal, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released a list of leaders for the state election management team on Thursday.

While BJP’s Swapandas Gupta and Anupam Hazra have been named in the manifesto committee, Locket Chatterjee has been given the charge of ‘MP Prabhas’, according to an official release by BJP’s State Vice President Pratap Banerjee.

Various departments in the BJP’s state election management team include — Yuva, Refugee and Matua program, Election Office in-charge, Election Commission Convenor, Political Issue, Manifesto, Panchayat Pradhan Contact, MP Prabhas, Booth management, Administration, Legal, among others.

In November, BJP sent its top office-bearers to tour West Bengal and submit a ground report on the strategy needed to usurp power from the Mamata Banerjee government in the Assembly polls.

The tours of top office-bearers were finalised after a decision by the party that BJP President JP Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit the state regularly till the Assembly polls to take a stock of the preparations by the state unit.

BJP President Nadda and national General Secretary (Organisation) BL Santhosh had given the task to the leaders to understand the issues within the state unit and interact with various factions.

Polls for West Bengal Assembly’s 294 seats are scheduled to be held in the first half of next year.