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Ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections successful West Bengal, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has announced a committee to framework its predetermination manifesto. The party’s State Sankalp Patra Committee for the Assembly elections volition beryllium headed by a erstwhile Trinamool Congress MLA who joined the BJP successful March 2024.
Economist and MLA Ashok Lahiri volition service arsenic the convener of the committee, portion Agnimitra Paul, MLA from Asansol Dakshin, volition beryllium the co-convener. The different members see Chittaranjan Mandal, MP Manoj Tigga, elder BJP person Swapan Dasgupta, Shishir Bajoria, Amalkanti Ray, Vaishali Dalmia, Anirban Ganguly and State BJP spokesperson Debjit Sarkar. The improvement assumes value arsenic the BJP has progressive respective elder leaders with a wide scope of acquisition successful electoral authorities and argumentation making to hole the enactment manifesto.
In different development, Union Home Minister Amit Shah volition sojourn West Bengal connected January 30 and 31. During his two-day tour, Mr. Shah is expected to clasp cardinal organisational and governmental meetings to reappraisal preparations for the upcoming Assembly elections. Mr. Shah had visited the State successful the past week of December 2025 and addressed a property league successful Kolkata.
Along with Mr. Shah, recently elected BJP president Nitin Nabin volition sojourn the State connected January 27. This volition beryllium Mr. Nabin’s archetypal sojourn to West Bengal aft assuming office. He is scheduled to sojourn Durgapur and Asansol, areas considered strongholds of the BJP. The party, however, could not replicate its occurrence successful the 2019 Lok Sabha elections during the 2024 parliamentary elections.
