Overview
- J.P. Nadda arrived in Kolkata on January 8 and was received by state BJP leaders including Samik Bhattacharya and Sukanta Majumdar.
- He chaired a closed-door organisational review with district presidents, Vibhag conveners and pravasi karyakartas to assess election readiness.
- The BJP says Nadda will attend a Doctors Meet in Tangra, visit the Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute on January 9 and inaugurate new departments at AIIMS Kalyani, including radiation oncology, trauma and emergency medicine and a pneumatic tube system.
- Party leaders frame the push as a follow-on to Amit Shah’s guidance to counter TMC narratives and intensify outreach to the Matua community concerned about voter roll revisions.
- Nadda reiterated the BJP’s campaign themes by accusing the TMC government of corruption, misgovernance and allowing infiltrators, and a senior IPS officer briefly visited the hotel where his meeting was held before leaving.