Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit poll-bound West Bengal on Thursday to flag off the party’s fifth and final phase of ‘Poriborton Yatra’.
In a press statement, BJP Rajya Sabha member and media in-charge Anil Baluni said that during his two-day stay, Shah will flag off the Poriborton Yatra from the Indira Maidan in Kakdwip in South 24 Parganas district on Thursday.
“Shah will go to the historic Bharat Sevashram Sangha located in Kolkata on Thursday. Later, Shah will go to the Kapil Muni Ashram at Gangasagar,” said Baluni.
BJP’s Poriborton Yatra is taking place in five phases in West Bengal, passing through all the 294 legislative assemblies of the state.
The 294-member West Bengal Assembly is likely to go to the polls in April and May this year.
“The fifth phase of Poriborton Yatra, which starts tomorrow, will be the final one in Bengal. Earlier, four yatras from Nabadwip (Nadia), Tarapith (Birbhum), Jhargram and Cooch Behar have been flagged off,” the…