West Bengal Assembly Elections will begin from Saturday, March 27, as 30 Assembly Constituencies go to poll in the first of the eight-phase of polling. Electioneering or poll campaigning for the first phase came to a halt on Thursday at 5 PM as political parties have made their all-out effort to sway voters' attention for the 294-seat Bengal Assembly. It is a no brainer that, Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) and Trinamool Congress (TMC) are the main rivals for the 2021 state assembly in West Bengal.
While TMC is led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, BJP is fighting tooth-and-nail under the central leadership of Union Home Minister Amit Shah followed by Kailash Vijayvargiya, Dilip Ghosh and others.
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To understand the ground situation and BJP's strategy ABP News spoke to Amit Shah ahead of the first phase of the West Bengal Assembly Election 2021.
'Faceless In Many States'
It is often questioned that BJP has not projected a Chief Ministerial face for the West Bengal Assembly Elections, so what is their strategy in a state where cult figures are revered. Amit Shah speaking to ABP News elaborated that BJP has fought multiple state assembly elections "without projecting any face" and has been successful.
"We came to power in UP and Jharkhand, without projecting any face. We have remained faceless while contesting elections in many states," Amit Shah said talking to ABP News.
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On a potential candidate, senior BJP leader Amit Shah said for the next West Bengal Assembly Elections BJP will have a "Bhumiputra of Bengal".
"A strong face will emerge after this assembly election and that person will be the Bhumiputra of Bengal. We will fight the next assembly election under that person's name," Home Minister added.
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Voters Will Decide Suvendu Adhikari's Fate
On Suvendu Adhikari, who quit the ruling TMC and as a Cabinet Minister to join BJP ahead of West Bengal Assembly Elections, Amit Shah said the voters will decide his fate.
Amit Shah told ABP News: "If a leader changes party before the election, he can change because he has to ask the mandate for the upcoming next five years. Regarding Suvendu, the public will decide that where he is now in the right place for him or where he was before was his rightful place."
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“We are not changing the ideology, rather those who are coming to the party are following our ideology," Union Home Minister further added on TMC turncoat Suvendu, who is pitted from Nandigram Assembly seat battling incumbent Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.