In December 2023, on a trip to Calcutta, Union home minister Amit Shah had set a target of 35 Lok Sabha seats out of the 42 in Bengal. On Tuesday, two years later on another visit to Calcutta, Shah announced that the BJP will form the government after the state Assembly elections due next year. As he had done during the run-up to the Bihar polls, Shah raised the infiltration stick at the ruling Trinamool. What is she so scared about?”Shah recalled work on the metro services in the Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow started when the Samajwadi Party’s Akhilesh Yadav was the chief minister. Fear and corruption has turned into Bengal’s identity,” Shah said.

Source: The Telegraph December 30, 2025 12:49 UTC