New Delhi: During his three-day visit to the North-East, Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah will visit the poll-bound state Tripura on Sunday. On his one-day visit to the state, Shah will address two public rallies, will meet the local intellectuals, and will also address the party's core committee members and office bearers.
The BJP chief will first address a public rally in Ambassa town in the morning and after that he will address another public rally in Udaipur area, near Tripura Sundari mandir.
He will also address ' Manthan', an intellectual forum on 'challenges for our country to become Viswa Guru'. The local BJP leadership asserted that the topic has been specified by the forum itself. "The people of the state want a developed country as well as 'vikas' in the state. So the forum is keen to discuss over the challenges that India is facing to be called as 'Vuswa Guru'," central BJP in-charge for Tripura Sunil Deodhar mentioned.
Shah, who is also known for his election engineering and political management will hold meeting with 25 office bearers and core committee members of the party in the capital city of the state. Meanwhile, the local party leaders feel that BJP has managed to strengthen the party since last year in Tripura with joining of 7 MLA—six from Trinamool Congress, one from Congress and five leaders from Indigenous People's Front (IPFT) in the last week. Sources said that to give a boost to the saffron party, the top leadership is looking for an alliance with the Tribal party. "After 25 years, there is anti-incumbency and IPFT is looking for a separate Tipraland. But if anybody with having no personal agenda wants to join our party, they are welcome. The party feels that will have 2/3 majority with an alliance with IPFT," Deodhar claimed.
Recently, the CPI (M) politburo member Brinda Karat alleged that the saffron party was misusing power and restoring to "dirty tricks" to destabilise the incumbent Left government. The charge comes after BJP observers urged the Election Commission of India (ECI) to appoint the micro-observers in the poll-bound state from outside with deploying a maximum number of paramilitary forces.
The Assembly elections are scheduled in the next month for 60 seats in the state of Tripura.