The BJP has hired four trains with 16 general compartments each to ferry supporters from south Bengal districts to Calcutta on Wednesday for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally at the Brigade Parade Grounds, party leaders said. BJP state unit chief Dilip Ghosh said the trains would ferry supporters from Purulia, Bankura, Jhargram, West Midnapore, Murshidabad and Birbhum. “We have hired the four trains in the absence of adequate number of vehicles to ferry supporters to Modiji’s Brigade rally. Sanjay Ghosh, chief public relations officer of South Eastern Railway, said the BJP hired the trains through the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation. “We have hired around 400 buses and 200 four-wheelers, besides the trains, to send our supporters to Calcutta,” said BJP Jhargram chief Sukhamoy Sathpati.

Source: The Telegraph April 02, 2019 20:48 UTC