Overview
- After a three-day tour of West Bengal, Amit Shah capped his schedule with a directive to capture 20–22 of 28 Assembly seats in and around Kolkata while framing the campaign around alleged infiltration and corruption under the TMC.
- Shah ordered MPs, MLAs and local leaders to spend four days a week in constituencies and hold at least five corner meetings daily, tying ticket consideration to measurable on-ground performance over the next two months.
- Dilip Ghosh was brought back to the forefront as part of a core leadership group with Samik Bhattacharya, Sukanta Majumdar and Suvendu Adhikari, and he met the state president the next day to signal full re-engagement.
- Shah convened multiple strategy huddles, including with RSS functionaries, pressed for intensive booth-level mobilisation and vistaraks, and indicated he would base himself in Kolkata for several days each month ahead of the 2026 polls.
- With the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision under way, Shah pushed for more SIR camps and focused outreach to the Matua community, while the TMC publicly dismissed the BJP’s targets and allegations.