Union Home Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Shah arrived in Kolkata for a two-day visit to the state.
Ahead of the 2021 Assembly elections in West Bengal, Shah has arrived in the state to take stock of the party’s organisational matters.
Buoyed with former party president’s arrival, the BJP workers greeted Shah with slogans of “Amit Shah zindabad and Bharat Mata ki Jai” at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport.
The union minister was accompanied by BJP national vice-president Mukul Roy and national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya.
Om November 6, Shah will offer his prayers at Dakshineswar Kali Temple. “Before holding an organisational meeting with BJP state unit leaders in Kolkata for the 2021 Assembly polls, Amit Shah Ji will also be visiting Gauranganagar, a refugee colony where he is slated to have lunch with them,” said senior BJP leader Sabyasachi Dutta.
Earlier, West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar had met Amit Shah at his residence in New Delhi last week discussing affairs relating to Bengal at length.
