Hazra removed from BJP national secy post

 

 

 

 

 

 

BJP President J P Nadda has removed West Bengal leader Anupam Hazra from the post of the party’s national secretary. A former Lok Sabha MP, Hazra has been critical of the party’s functioning in the State for some time. The BJP’s decision came on Tuesday, coinciding with Nadda and Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to Kolkata for a host of political programmes. Hazra’s removal from the post is being seen as a message to dissidents within the party to stick to organisational discipline and toe the leadership’s line.

 

Shah has asserted that no one can stop the implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act as it is the law of the land and accused the West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, of misleading people on the issue. Addressing a closed-door meeting of the State BJP’s social media and IT wing members at the National Library in Kolkata on Tuesday, Shah said it is the party’s commitment to implement the CAA. Shah expressed confidence that the party will bag more than 35 out of the 42 Lok Sabha seats from the state. In the 2019 polls, the saffron camp had secured 18 seats.

 

The Bengal BJP media cell shared a list of pointers of Shah’s speech at the closed-door programme. Later in the evening, it also shared a few video clips of Shah's speech. “We have to work to form a BJP Government in West Bengal after the next Assembly polls. A BJP Government will mean the end of infiltration, cow smuggling and providing citizenship to religiously persecuted people through CAA,” he said at the party programme, the video clip of which was shared by the BJP’s media wing.