Kolkata: BJP is still ill prepared for the civic polls in West Bengal due next year. Though the civic polls will give clear signals for BJP's acceptance which is likely to decide whether BJP may win power in the upcoming assembly polls in 2016.
The ruling Trinamool Congress registered a huge victory in the 2008 panchyat polls followed by large-scale win in the civic polls. It was evident that it was going to topple the Left government in the assembly polls in 2011.
This time around too TMC is determined to replicate its success both in the assembly polls and in the civic polls. Serious preparations are already on. Trinamool is all the more serious and leaving no stone unturned in view of the setbacks it has suffered thanks to the Saradha scam and Bardhaman blasts.
Mamata Banerjee is personally seeing to it that those do not eat into her vote banks. While her MPs are trying to create sand storm in the Parliament to cover Modi government, she is busy galvanizing her party workers against the BJP onslaught in the home turf. Thus party workers conferences are being organized in districts and the CM Mamata Banerjee herself is presiding over those. She wants to use a forked weapon. First, she wants to convince all party men that she remains invincible and thereby push up their confidence level. Second, she wants to formulate strategy for both defence and offence.
But BJP is way behind in its organization of things. It is mostly banking on the CBI netting more TMC leaders, on the NIA investigations into blasts, Modi image and on many people's disenchantment with Mamata and Trinamool. The only significant message it has sent forth so far is its ability to fight TMC on the ground. Recurring clashes between TMC and BJP supporters bear this out. If BJP wants to take on TMC in the civic polls first, it has to get its acts together. It has already decided and for which green signal has come from party HQ in Delhi, to employ whole timers for the party - 294 for 294 assembly seats. But assembly polls are in 2016. It needs organizational muscle for the civic polls which is in 2015. Time is short for BJP.
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