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Shah's visit to Bengal called off owing to Cyclone Dana

Amit Shah was expected to guide the leaders on campaign strategies and discuss the reasons behind the BJP’s unimpressive performance in the general election 2024.

News Arena Network - Kolkata - UPDATED: October 22, 2024, 08:28 PM - 2 min read

Shah's visit to Bengal called off owing to Cyclone Dana

Shah's visit to Bengal called off owing to Cyclone Dana

Union Home Minister Amit Shah - file image.


Since the Lok Sabha election results, Union Home Minister Amit Shah was about to make his first trip to Bengal this week. 

 

However, the trip was cancelled because of the forecast of Cyclone Dana, which is likely to make landfall between Puri and Sagar Island later this week.

 

Shah was scheduled to reach Calcutta on the night of October 23 and was expected to attend a series of programmes, including a meeting of the BJP’s extended state committee in Kolkata.

 

Besides the political meetings, Shah was scheduled to meet 3,000 farmers from various agrarian districts in Hooghly’s Arambagh on Thursday in his capacity as the Union cooperation minister.

 

On Monday, decorators removed the material brought to set up the pandal for Shah’s meeting with the farmers. 

 

A senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader said: “We have been informed by Amit Shah’s office that his visit has been called off because of the Cyclone Dana forecast. And the meeting will be rescheduled before Diwali.”

 

A section of BJP leaders considered the cancellation of Shah’s meeting a loss for the organisation as he was expected to prepare his party colleagues for the next course of action at a time when the Mamata Banerjee government is beset over the junior doctor’s rape and murder at RG Kar hospital.

 

Additionally, byelections are scheduled to be held for six Bengal Assembly seats, where the BJP has already announced its candidates.

 

Shah was expected to guide the leaders on campaign strategies. He was also likely to discuss the reasons behind the BJP’s unimpressive performance in the general election this year, where the party won only 12 seats, six less than in 2019.

 

 

 

 

 

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