BJP minority morcha to launch campaign on pro people policies

With an eye on the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP Minority Morcha West Bengal unit has decided to launch campaign on triple talaq and various pro people policies of the Narendra Modi government.

"We will launch a massive campaign over this issue of triple talaq, how this decision will help lakhs of Muslim women across the country," state BJP minority morcha president Ali Hossain said Thursday.

The Union Cabinet last month approved an ordinance to ban instant triple talaq and make it a punishable offence.

The BJP Minority Morcha, West Bengal unit, Thursday organized a two day conference to discuss various issues pertaining the Muslim community of the state, which comprises nearly 30 per cent of the electorate.

Apart from triple talaq, the members of party's minority morcha will also propagate about the Assam NRC to counter the 'false propaganda' against the party, he said.

The BJP Minorty Morcha aims to highlight the NRC issue in Assam as well and how its updation exercise earlier this year was carried out to benefit the northeastern state as well as the country.

"We will propagate about NRC in Assam and how it is done for the benefit of that state and country, contrary to the propaganda of the TMC. We will also issue articles on violence and misrule of TMC government and the developmental work done by the Narendra Modi government in the last four-and-half years," another party leader said.

According to party sources, the state leadership has been buoyed by its performance in the last Panchayat polls and now wants to do even better in the next Lok Sabha polls by reaching out to the people of the state.

The BJP had emerged as the number two in West Bengal after TMC in the three-tier local bodies' polls recently, leaving behind CPI(M) and the Congress.

BJP president Amit Shah has recently set a target of winning 22 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal for his party workers.