BJP has firmed up poll strategy for Bengal elections: Syed Zafar Islam

Ravi S Singh
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, March 14

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BJP Rajya Sabha MP and the party’s young face Syed Zafar Islam on Sunday said that his party has firmed up its poll strategy to win at least 200 out of the total of 294 assembly seats in West Bengal.

“The strategy is in place to hit the jackpot of 200 plus seats, and its implementation has been set in motion,” Islam, an emerging minority face of the BJP, said.

Islam, who is also BJP’s national spokesperson, said the feedback from the cadres on ground present a rosy prospect for the party romping home on a canter in the hustings in the state.

“The opponents of the BJP are clueless at the party’s ascendancy, and its meteoric rise has taken them aback. It is like a thunderbolt from the blue to them.”

“With the ruling TMC in total disarray looking for a straw to clutch, and the Sanyukt Morcha of the Left-Congress-Indian Secular Front in jitters, there is a strong possibility of them forming unholy nexus at a subterranean level to halt the triumphal march of the BJP,” Zafar Islam said and added that the situation, however, has spun out of their control.

He said a section of the Muslim voters will give the lie to the BJP’s opponents by supporting it during the elections. There will be a three-way split in the minority votes: for the BJP, TMC and the Sanyuk Morcha.

Islam is among the BJP leaders from a minority background who have been assigned election duties in the state.

Muslims preponderate the demographic profile in about 80-90 assembly seats. They had been a pillar of strength for the TMC. Constituting about 23 per cent population of the state, they helped it a big way to dominate the state’s political landscape.

Zafar Islam said that the community has now realised that the TMC, the Left and the Congress have been making vacuous promises all through these years.

They had been raising the BJP bogey to the Muslims to exploit them for their votes.

“The equitable delivery of the Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre has started dawning among the Muslims in West Bengal, as in other states. They see the Prime Minister as a symbol of hope and development, and an inspirational figure,” Zafar Islam said.