Home Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Shah held his latest "Jan Samvad" virtual rally for West Bengal, from the party headquarters in New Delhi.
According to the West Bengal BJP, and Shah's own admission, the "rally" was transmitted to over 70,000 booths across Bengal using as many numbers of LED screens. Through the course of the roughly one-hour-long address, the Home Minister trained his guns on the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal on a variety of issues, ranging from its COVID-19 response, to return of migrants, Ayushmann Bharat and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
While the party claims that these addresses, spread across the country, are an attempt to thank the nation on the one-year anniversary of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's second term in office, many are also seeing it as the start to the party's poll campaign in West Bengal, which goes to elections next year.