BJP and TMC are facing each other in one of the first elections in India this year, in West Bengal. While TMC is capitalizing on the injury that Mamata Banerjee got in Nandigram, BJP is trying to make gains out of the defections from the ruling party in the state.

At Bishnupur, the road-show rally on Tuesday, for JP Nadda did not go as planned and expected for BJP. Nadda was supposed to reach the place at 11 am but he reached after 2 pm. Many of the party-workers and other people of the region walked back towards their home, bored of the delay and irritated by the afternoon heat.

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At around 3pm, a rally was to be held at Kotulpur led by Nadda, but he reached there more than two hours after the scheduled timing. Hence, he had to finish his speech within 30 minutes. The local BJP units in the district are in discomfort on the scanty participation in the rally that Nadda took out while campaigning for the candidates standing from Bishnupur & Kotulpur.

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As per sources within BJP in Bishnupur, Nadda’s rally was scheduled to begin at the Kumari cinema in the town and it was planned to be taken through Pokabandh & Chokbazaar concluding at the Rasikganj. Due to this plan, local BJP workers were waiting since 10:30 am in the morning at the helipad on the ground of the National Club. But a long wait and a scorching Sun turned off many of the people waiting for the arrival of Nadda, who arrived at the place at around 2:15 pm.

At the Chokbazaar in Bishnupur, in the mid-way of the procession, the road-show of Nadda, which began late had to be stopped against the plans primarily due to thin crowds.

The schedule for election for the four states and a UT were announced on February, 26, 2021. In West Bengal, the election will be held in 8 phases from March 27, 2021 to April, 29, 2021 and the votes will be counted on May, 02, 2021.