Poll Preparation: BJP Appoints 5 Central Leaders to Assess Its Strengths and Weaknesses in Bengal
News 18To assess its organisational strengths and weaknesses ahead of the 2021 assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party divided West Bengal into five zones and appointed five central leaders on Tuesday to get an ‘unbiased report’ on its present position in the state. These five central leaders will have a series of meetings in their respective zones and they will submit a report to party president JP Nadda in a week. The decision was taken at Tuesday’s organisational meeting where all the senior party leaders including BL Santhosh, Amit Malviya, Arvind Menon, Shiv Prakash, Kailash Vijayvargiya, etc, were present. In the context of why central leaders were appointed for five zones in Bengal and no one from the state leadership was tasked with the assignment, a senior BJP leader said, “There are differences of opinion among party leaders in the state.