Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on his second visit to poll-bound West Bengal within a span of two weeks, will inaugurate three big-ticket central industrial projects totalling Rs 4,552 crores at Haldia in East Midnapore next week in what appears to be a curtain-raiser of his campaign to brighten the BJP’s prospect in the ensuing Assembly Election.
What has however irked the ruling Trinamul Congress, is union petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s invitation to its MP of Tamluk: Dibyendu Adhikari to Modi’s event on February 7.
While Haldia is located in Tamluk Lok Sabha constituency, senior TMC leaders have started reading a hidden and clear message in the invitation to the young MP who has been maintaining distance from the party since his elder brother Shubhendu Adhikari and younger brother Soumendu Adhikari have already switched from chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s party to the BJP and their father and three-time MP Sisir Adhikari has been isolated in the…