PM Modi likely to attend Kolkata event
Kolkata: BJP West Bengal president Sukanta Majumdar on Monday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to attend an event in Kolkata in December in which around 1 lakh people will chant the Bhagavad Gita together.
He told PTI that the ‘One Lakh Geeta Path’ program would be organized on December 24 at the Brigade Parade Ground in the heart of the city.
He said, “We have invited PM Modi to attend the program and he has accepted our invitation. One lakh people will recite the Bhagavad Gita together on that day.”
He said that many religious groups have come together to organize this huge event.
“It will be an apolitical event,” Majumdar claimed, adding that invitations would also be sent to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Governor CV Anand Bose and other famous personalities of the state.
“This event has nothing to do with the BJP and we are not organizing it,” he said.
However, the ruling Trinamool Congress claimed that the event was organized strategically keeping in mind the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
“As the Lok Sabha elections are approaching, it is absolutely natural that BJP leaders will visit the state more frequently. We have seen this trend before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and the 2021 Assembly elections. But, this will not help Any outcome,” TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP won 18 out of 42 seats in the state, while TMC’s tally dropped to 22. Congress won two seats.
