No illegal immigrants: BJP outlines core focus areas for West Bengal polls

The party's promise to identify illegal immigrants has been a crucial factor in ensuring BJP's win from border districts and northern parts of Bengal

After posting an impressive win by bagging 18 of 42 seats in West Bengal in the Lok Sabha elections, the BJP has now turned its focus to topple the ruling TMC government in the state and has started preparing itself to be viewed as an “alternative force” that can take TMC head-on.

Party leaders think that if BJP is to win the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections, the party needs its own developmental agenda and programmes. Mere criticism of  TMC and chief minister Mamata Banerjee, coupled with high-pitched rhetoric may not help it to overthrow the latter.

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