BJP national president Nitin Nabin will meet the party’s state leadership on Tuesday to assess election preparedness amid growing discontent within the ranks over candidate selection for many seats. Party workers from at least half-a-dozen constituencies, including some from Calcutta, have visited the state BJP office in Salt Lake to express their unhappiness. A senior BJP leader underlined that the first list of 144 candidates had provoked no agitations. “The party will look into these agitations,” he said, adding that they owed to the party workers’ emotions. The BJP’s assessment of its defeat in the 2021 Assembly elections had identified incorrect candidate selection at several seats.

Source: The Telegraph March 23, 2026 01:33 UTC