Who will win the election of KOLKATA MUNCIPAL CORPORATION, April 2020- (TMC &BJP)

Who will win  the election of Kolkata Muncipal  Corp, April  2020.

WHY BJP……

1. The BJP had won 18 of Bengal’s 42 Lok Sabha seats, giving a big jolt to the ruling Trinamool Congress which is headed by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

2. Roy, one of the architects of the BJP’s good show in Bengal, said the party will treat next year’s civic elections as a “mini general election”.

 3. A municipal election is as important as the assembly elections and BJP have already started preparing for it.BJP IS targeting a win in all 144 seats in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation as well as other corporation polls in Siliguri, Asansol, Howrah, among others,” he added.

4. Roy, along with BJP national general secretary and its West Bengal in-charge Kailash Vijayvargiya, ha campingened in the state every alternate week to fine-tune its poll strategy.

5. The recent violence in Bhatpara is an indication of how the CM has refused to accept the people’s mandate. BJP’s Arjun Singh had won the Barrackpore Lok Sabha seat, under which Bhatpara assembly segment falls, by over 14,000 votes.

6. Till now, over 15 corporators and 14 MLAs have joined the saffron party. These include Roy’s son, Subhranghsu, who joined the BJP last month after being suspended by the Trinamool Congress for six years for anti-party activities. “Even in a by-election to the Bhatpara assembly seat, BJP’s Pawan Kumar Singh had won by over 23,000 votes,” Roy said.

7. According to an official of BJP the state government  has failed in every respect, including delivery of welfare schemes. “The chief minister is telling people to not pay heed to her own party members who have been asking money from people in order to hand over government benefits.

 WHY TMC…..

  1."It has been decided that TMC protest against CAA will continue till it is revoked. IT will carry out a door-to-door campaign against both CAA and NRC and will be our poll plank in the coming civic poll," said a senior TMC leader on condition of anonymity.

2.TMC is at the forefront of the opposition to the contentious CAA, proposed NRC and the NPR.

3.The party has already conducted a survey to assess its support base and the penetration of BJP in the state. The survey will play a key role in adopting the strategy and in the selection of candidates for the civic polls, the sources said.

4.The civic polls, in which about 60 per cent voters of the state will be eligible to take part, are being tipped as the "mini assembly election" ahead of the crucial 2021 state polls.

5.The polls have assumed significance as the BJP has emerged as a tough challenger to the ruling Trinamool Congress by making deep inroads in the state and pushing the opposition Congress and Left Front to distant third and fourth spots respectively.

6.TMC secretary-general Partha Chatterjee said the party will organise human chains in various parts of the state to protest against the contentious law.

7.Party supremeo  conducted three rallies in February to protest against CAA and NRC," he added.

8.The  BJP had bagged 18 of the 42 seats, just four short of the TMC in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The TMC's tally had come down from 34 in 2014 to 22 seats.

9. TMC has roped in poll strategist Prashant Kishor and his team I-PAC to evolve strategies ahead of the assembly elections in 2021.

 Misc. about the topic….

Many state BJP leaders have also expressed apprehension that the civic polls may end up like the 2018 panchayat elections during which widespread violence had resulted in 34 per cent of the gram panchayat seats going uncontested.

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Despite its tall claims of dislodging the Trinamool Congress (TMC) from power in West Bengal in the 2021 Assembly elections, the BJP has been unable to find its mayoral candidate for more than 100 municipalities, including the Kolkata Municipal Corpo...

The civic polls which will cover about 60% of the state are being considered as the “semi final” to the 2021 Assembly elections. The elections to 109 municipalities, including KMC, are expected to be held in April.

BJP sources revealed that the decision was taken at a party meeting in Delhi attended by the party’s national general secretary (organisation) B L Santhosh, West Bengal president Dilip Ghosh along with several other senior state party leaders. “

According to the TMC sources, the party has already conducted a survey to assess its support base and penetration of the BJP in 107 municipalities of the state and that in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) that will go to polls in April-May 2020.

The civic polls, in which about 60 per cent voters of the state would be eligible to take part, are being tipped as "mini assembly election" ahead of the crucial 2021 state polls.

Senior TMC leaders, including party MP and president of TMC youth wing Abhishek Banerjee, who also happens to be nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, along with poll strategist Prashant Kishor, held a closed-door meet during the day with the party councillors, MLAs and MPs of KMC areas, and discussed strategy for the upcoming elections.

According to the TMC sources, during the meeting, the leadership made it amply clear that the sole criteria for getting a ticket will be the performance of a councillor in the last five years.

The TMC have been in power in KMC for consecutive two terms since 2010.

According to the TMC sources, the survey report would play a key role in adopting strategy and selection of candidates would be conducted for the municipal polls.

The Trinamool Congress leadership has asked its party councillors in Kolkata to ensure effective implementation of the "Didi ke Bolo" (tell Didi) programme in the city, which would be one of the yardsticks for getting a nomination in the KMC polls.

The polls have assumed significance as the BJP has emerged as a tough challenger to the ruling Trinamool Congress, making deep inroads in the state and pushing the opposition Congress and Left Front to distant third and fourth spots respectively