Shah sets target of 35 LS seats for Bengal BJP

Setting a target of 35 Lok Sabha seats in Bengal in 2024, Union home minister Amit Shah and BJP national president J P Nadda formed a 15-member core election management committee to lay the groundwork for the campaign. The committee has four central observers, but leaves out four junior Union ministers from the state. “Give 35 seats to (PM Narendra) Modi-ji from the land of Syama Prasad Mookerjee, I guarantee that Modi-ji will make ‘Sonar Bangla’. If we can achieve 77 seats from zero (in the 2021 assembly polls), then we can form a government with two-thirds majority too,” Shah told BJP karyakartas at a meeting at the National Library.