Latest Brigade Parade Ground News & Updates

Kolkata, March 11 (IANS) The West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is expecting a record turnout at the party’s mega rally at the Brigade Parade Ground in central Kolkata on March 14, which will be addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Preparations are already in full swing at the Brigade Parade Ground to erect multiple stages for the rally, which will also mark the culmination of the BJP’s Parivartan Yatra across the state that began earlier this month ahead of the crucia…

Kolkata, March 9 (IANS) Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has accused the BJP of trying to distribute leaflets of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s March 14 brigade rally in Kolkata at her sit-in demonstration site in Esplanade. She also claimed that this work was being done through an agency.After that, Chief Minister Banerjee ordered that the people doing so be caught red-handed.She asked state minister Shashi Panja to file an FIR immediately. She also ordered everyone to keep an eye on the surround…

Kolkata, March 5 (IANS) The mega rally of the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at Brigade Parade Ground in central Kolkata, which is scheduled to be addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi later this month as part of the party’s campaign build-up for the forthcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal later this year, might be advanced by a day.“Initially, it was decided that the event would be organised on March 15. However, at that particular point in time, we made it c…

Kolkata, March 1 (IANS) Amid the forthcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a mega rally at Brigade Parade Ground in central Kolkata on March 15.The mega rally will also mark the end of the “Parivartan Yatra” by the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that started on Sunday. Nine separate rallies will start from nine locations in the state on Sunday and Monday.However, there will be no rallies on March 3 and March 4, because of t…

Kolkata, Feb 27 (IANS) A single-judge Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday gave conditional permission to the BJP’s proposed two-day ‘Parivartan Yatra’ on March 1 and March 2.The yatra will start from nine different locations in West Bengal on these two days in the run up to the crucial Assembly elections in the state scheduled later this year.Being denied police permission for the yatra, the West Bengal unit of the BJP approached the Calcutta High Court’s single-judge Bench of Justice…

Kolkata, Feb 27 (IANS) Union Minister for Home Affairs Amit Shah’s scheduled participation in the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) ‘Parivartan Yatra’ programme amid the preparations for the Assembly elections has been postponed by a day.Initially, the Union Home Minister was supposed to flag off the party’s ‘Parivartan Yatra’ programme from Raidighi in South 24 Parganas district on March 1. However, that programme has been postponed by a day and rescheduled for March 2.“On March 1, the Union…

Kolkata, Feb 23 (IANS) With the crucial Assembly elections in West Bengal scheduled later this year, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will flag off the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) ‘Parivartan Yatra’ programme from South 24 Parganas district on March 1, marking the formal launch of the party’s statewide campaign initiative.As per the schedule finalised so far, the first ‘Parivartan Yatra’ will begin from the Raidighi Assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district on the morning of Marc…

Kolkata, Feb 17 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said on Tuesday that the party would undertake ‘Parivartan Rath Yatras’ in West Bengal as part of its campaigning for the upcoming Assembly polls. Announcing the programme, West Bengal BJP President Samik Bhattacharya said that after 34 years of CPI-M rule, people gave Trinamool Congress a chance to come to power in the state hoping for a change.”But in the last 15 years, democratic rights have been eroded in the state and corruption has ta…

Kolkata, Feb 15 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a mega rally organised by the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata next month. Although the date of the rally is yet to be fixed, a formal announcement in the matter will be made soon after the Holi festival on March 4, said a state committee member of BJP in West Bengal.”The Election Commission of India is also slated to announce the polling dates for the West Bengal Assembly sch…