The Narendra Modi government’s citizenship matrix is going to dominate the BJP’s campaign for coming civic elections in Bengal, said multiple sources involved in drawing up the party’s strategy for the polls.

The strategy was finalised after a series of meetings were held on Sunday by B.L. Santosh, BJP’s national secretary (organisation).

He chaired three separate meetings, with district committees, Howrah election committees and the KMC.

“After Amit Shah’s meeting with state party functionaries on last Sunday, it was decided that we would go all out in the civic polls. Today’s meetings were a follow up to that meeting,” said a source.

It has been decided that BJP leaders will campaign in support of the Citizenship Amendment Act and MPs, MLAs and central leaders, including Kaliash Vijayvargiya, will go all out in all 144 wards of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation over three days from March 13.

In other districts where civic bodies will go to polls, the campaigning — along the same line — will start from March 15.

“Central BJP leaders have instructed us to use the civic polls to get a feel of the electorate’s perception about the CAA and so, it will be the mainstay of the campaign,” said a state BJP insider.

In an attempt to showcase how the CAA is going to help the Hindu migrants from Bangladesh, the BJP has decided to field Bongaon party MP Santanu Thakur in areas with high density of Bangladeshi Hindu refugees for the campaign.

Thakur is a representative of Matuas, a majority of whom migrated from Bangladesh to India in the 1960s and 1970s.