Union home minister Amit Shah will be in Bengal on a two-day visit early next month to hold organisational meetings of the BJP’s four zones, state party president Dilip Ghosh said on Friday.
Earlier, the BJP had announced a two-day programme of party president J.P. Nadda, who was supposed to be in Bengal on November 6 and 7.
“There have been changes in the programmes,” Ghosh said. “Amitji will come instead of Naddaji. He would address the workers of Burdwan and Midnapur zones on November 5 and those from the Calcutta and Nabadweep zones the following day,” he added.
The state BJP had requested both Shah and Nadda to visit Bengal during the festival period and meet party workers to prepare them for the next year’s Assembly polls.
“Amitji’s health is better now. Since he is coming, it has been decided that he will cover all the four zones together,” a state BJP leader said.
Shah had been afflicted by Covid-19 recently.
In the BJP scheme of things, Bengal is divided into five different organisational zones. Nadda had addressed the north Bengal zone on October 17.
The national leadership had recently made a key change in the BJP’s state unit by replacing Subrato Chatterjee with Amitava Chakraborty as the BJP’s general secretary (organisation).
The BJP on Friday also announced its plan to hold a business conference by the end of this year.
“We would discuss the aspects of industrialisation in Bengal with various industrialists and other stakeholders. We want to understand what the investors want from a new government if we come to power,” MP Swapan Dasgupta told a news conference here.
The business meet will be held by December or January, Dasgupta said. “Whether it would be a virtual event or an actual one will be decided on after taking the pandemic situation into consideration.”