New Delhi, Dec 26 (UNI) The run-up to ‘crucial’ Bengal Assembly elections is giving birth to new ‘stunt’ almost everyday. If it was a “query” on Friday whether the Left is right relating to “contradictory application” of it’s ideology in Bengal and Kerala with regard to Congress, Saturday is changing the focus on BJP’s “unusual importance” to legends belonging to the state like-Swami Vivekananda and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
According to BJP sources here, ahead of the Bengal polls, the party is planning big celebrations for the birth anniversaries of the two icons.
While Union Home Minister Amit Shah will pay a three-day visit to Bengal on January 12, Swamiji’s birthday, a high-level committee, headed by Mr Shah, is being constituted to commemorate the 125 birth anniversary of Netaji on January 23.
The panel would workout activities for year-long celebrations for the great freedom fighter across country, the sources said.
However, both Trinamool Congress and the newly formed Congress-Left alliance have branded BJP’s big birthday celebrations for Swamiji and Netaji as poll “gimmick.”
“Swamiji and Netaji are in our blood. There is no need for their advertisement,” a senior Trinamool leader said.
This view was ‘echoed’ in the observations of the Congress-Left alliance leaders who termed the issue as “Election stunt.”
The 294-seat Bengal Assembly will go to polls in April-May next year.
