Rallies of the BJP for the election in West Bengal are not pulling in large crowds which has put the party in a fix.

At the rally in Belda, the field was not crowded. Giving a speech in an empty field is very dishonourably inappropriate for a state chief minister. So on Tuesday in Belda, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had to wait a long time to speak. On the same day, he came to Belda to hold a rally in support of BJP candidate Ramaprasad Giri from Narayangarh constituency. He arrived at the meeting place just in time. But the meeting was delayed by one hour due to lack of people.

However, after waiting for an hour, the meeting started but the crowd did not get pooled. Adityanath himself, of course, tried to explain the situation. “I arrived an hour ago,” he said. As expected, he criticized the Trinamool government, saying that the BJP does what it says. Trying to add a religious colour to the rally, he added, “Wherever Lord Rama has been opposed, the people have given worthy answers. They will answer here too!”

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On the same day, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held a meeting at Jalchak of Sabang Assembly seat and Chaipat Faridpur of Daspur Assembly seat. At Jalchak, he was accompanied by state BJP president and MP Dilip Ghosh. These two meetings were not as crowded as was expected and drum-beated about by BJP. In both the meetings, Rajnath criticized the Trinamool government. He said that there is a lot of fighting going on here; hence there was no development, and that opponents are not allowed to carry out political programmes.

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Rajnath Singh added that these will stop when the BJP government comes. He further added, “People will not be victims of political oppression.” Trying to lure the Bengali voters, he also said that as soon as Sourav Ganguly went ahead in the cricket crease, it was clear that he would hit sixes. Singh further added, “You have given us the lead in the Lok Sabha elections. Now it is time to hit a six.”

Dilip Ghosh said that the wife of his brother had won the by-election instead of the candidate of Trinamool congress, and that this time his brother is back again. He also added that this election should start from Pingla (Kharagpur sub-division in Paschim Medinipur district).