Rahul Gandhi will visit north Bengali ethnic groups on the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra. |
The BJP has
made significant gains in recent years, despite the fact that the Congress had
controlled a sizable portion of north Bengal before the Left and TMC seized power.
In order to
better understand local issues in the lead-up to the 2024 general elections,
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi plans to meet with tea garden workers and ethnic
communities in north Bengal during his upcoming "Bharat Jodo Nyay
Yatra," the party's state leaders announced on Thursday. West Bengal is
probably going to be touched by the campaign by the end of January.
The
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has made significant gains in recent years,
despite the fact that the Left and Trinamool Congress (TMC) once controlled a
sizable portion of north Bengal.
In the eight
districts of north Bengal, the BJP won 29 of the 54 assembly seats in 2021,
while the TMC won 215 of the 294 seats in the state to the BJP's 75 losses. The
BJP set a record by winning 18 of the 42 seats in the state in the 2019 Lok
Sabha elections. The saffron camp won seven of the eight seats in north Bengal.
Gandhi's
Manipur-to-Mumbai campaign, in which leaders of the I.N.D.I.A. coalition are
also invited, will assist the Congress central leadership in assessing the
party's standing in a number of West Bengal districts prior to making a
decision regarding how to proceed with seat-sharing negotiations with the TMC
for the Lok Sabha elections.