Union Minister for Home Affairs Amit Shah’s involvement in the Bharatiya Janata Party’s ‘Parivartan Yatra’ event ahead of the Assembly elections has been delayed by a day. Initially set to kick off the program from Raidighi in South 24 Parganas district on March 1, the event has been rescheduled to March 2. A state BJP committee member in West Bengal mentioned that Shah’s Mumbai visit on March 1 to honor Guru Tegh Bahadur led to the postponement of the Raidighi program.
The revised plan indicates that Shah will reach Kolkata around 10 p.m. on March 1 from Mumbai and head to Raidighi by a special helicopter at approximately 11.15 a.m. on March 2. He is expected to arrive at the ‘Parivartan Yatra’ venue in Raidighi around noon. The ‘Parivartan Yatra’ will cover nine out of the ten BJP organizational divisions in West Bengal, excluding Kolkata as the starting point.
Several senior BJP leaders, including Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Nitin Nabin, J.P. Nadda, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Dharmendra Pradhan, Smriti Irani, and Devendra Fadnavis, are anticipated to join the ‘Parivartan Yatra’ campaign at various junctures. The program is expected to culminate with a significant public rally by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata towards the end of the second or beginning of the third week of March, with the exact date yet to be confirmed.
