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In an effort to boost the party’s electoral prospects successful the upcoming Assembly polls successful West Bengal, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has returned to its clip tested strategy of organising Rath Yatras.
State BJP president Samik Bhattacharya connected Tuesday (February 17, 2026) announced Parivartan Yatras crossed the State successful the period of March. There volition beryllium 9 yatras that volition commencement from antithetic parts of the State.
On March 1, the yatras volition commencement from Cooch Behar Dakshin, Krishnanagar Dakshin, Garbeta, Raydighi and Kulti. The precise adjacent day, different acceptable of yatras volition commencement from Islampur, Sandeshkhali, Hassan and Amta.
“The yatra volition culminate astatine the extremity of March with a monolithic rally astatine Brigade Parade Ground, addressed by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. Preparations for the rally person already begun,” a property connection by the West Bengal BJP said.
Leader of Opposition successful West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari said that determination volition beryllium akin yatras earlier Assembly polls successful each State.
According to the West Bengal portion of the BJP, these yatras volition screen much than 5,000 km crossed each Assembly constituency and determination volition beryllium 60 ample nationalist meetings and much than 300 tiny nationalist gatherings. Several elder leaders of the party, including BJP president Nitin Naveen, erstwhile nationalist president and Union Minister J.P. Nadda, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Ministers Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Nitin Gadkari and Dharmendra Pradhan, and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, are among the leaders who volition enactment successful the yatras.
The BJP successful West Bengal has emerged arsenic the main Opposition enactment aft the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and contempt posing a pugnacious contention to the Trinamool, mislaid the 2021 Assembly polls. The Trinamool Congress looks upbeat aft expanding the currency entitlements of the Lakshmir Bhandar strategy and introducing a caller currency inducement strategy for unemployed youth.
