With the election atmosphere intensifying in West Bengal, political rhetoric has also become sharper. At a rally held in Islampur in North Dinajpur district on Monday, BJP President Nitin Nabeen said that if his party forms the government in the state, the name of Islampur will be changed to Ishwarpur.
The announcement comes amid BJP’s ongoing 5,000-km Parivartan Yatra, which the party is projecting as a campaign for regime change in Bengal. Nitin Nabin appealed to the workers and supporters from the stage to make the Yatra a mass movement and said that people themselves will have to come forward for change.
At the rally, Nitin Nabin said that the purpose of Parivartan Yatra is not just organization expansion but political change. According to him, this yatra will reach every part of the state and raise local issues. He called it a campaign to raise voice against the injustice being done to the people of Bengal.
He also said that to bring change in Bengal, people will have to elect their own government. The central message of his speech was that through the yatra, the party wants to reach every village and create an atmosphere before the elections.
Nitin Nabin also raised the issue of infiltration in his address. He said that BJP will not allow any infiltrator to snatch the rights of the people of West Bengal. According to him, the party’s focus is on ensuring security and bringing political change against corruption.
BJP has been raising this issue in Bengal politics for a long time, and this time too it is being given prominence in election rallies. It was also underlined in the Islampur meeting that the question of security and civil rights in the border districts will be an important part of the election discussion.
During the rally, Nitin Nabin targeted the Trinamool Congress government and said that the state government was not cooperating in providing land for fencing the border. He alleged that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was not giving priority to the safety of the country’s citizens.
He also claimed that if the Election Commission had not removed the names of 50 lakh Bangladeshis from the voter list, the benefits of the central government’s welfare schemes would have reached the infiltrators. Nitin Nabin called it injustice to the real beneficiaries of the state.
The political conflict between BJP and TMC ahead of Bengal elections now seems to be intensifying on issues like identity, security and beneficiaries of welfare schemes. The statement of changing the name given in Islampur is also being considered a part of this broader election strategy, in which the party is taking local symbols and bigger political issues together.
