Overview
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Alipurduar, West Bengal, on May 29, 2025, to address a public rally and an administrative meeting highlighting Operation Sindoor.
- Union Home Minister Amit Shah is set to follow with a visit on May 31, 2025, focusing on grassroots mobilization and election strategy for the 2026 Assembly elections.
- The BJP leadership is addressing concerns over weak presence in over 77,000 polling booths across the state and internal rifts within the party's state unit.
- Suvendu Adhikari, Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, has called a meeting on May 26 to discuss the upcoming visits and their strategic implications.
- The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has criticized the visits, with leader Kunal Ghosh asserting that they will not sway voters from supporting Mamata Banerjee.