Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah will visit a polling booth in Kolkata’s Bhawanipur on Wednesday. It is the assembly constituency of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the symbolism is self-evident. The BJP chief wants his party structure galvanised in the home turf of the Trinamool Congress chief.
Next month, Shah will visit Odisha as part of his ‘vistarak’, or party expansion, tour of five states where the BJP has traditionally been weak. In Odisha, Shah is likely to spend a day visiting a polling booth in state CM Naveen Patnaik’s assembly constituency Hinjli in Ganjam district. A

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