Smriti Irani holds BJP organisational meeting in Bengal's Howrah

The meeting is part of our pan-India programme where senior leaders and union ministers are visiting those Lok Sabha seats that we had lost in the 2019 elections. She discussed various organisational aspects during the meeting, a state BJP leader said.In that years Lok Sabha polls, the BJP won 18 seats, while the ruling TMC emerged victorious in 22 out of the total 42 constituencies in West Bengal.

Union minister Smriti Irani on Sunday held an organisational meeting of the BJP's Howrah district unit during her visit to West Bengal.

Irani, the Union minister for women & child development, arrived in the city this morning and went to Howrah district where she held a closed-door organisational meeting with the district unit. She is also scheduled to inaugurate a Metro Railway station on Monday. "The meeting is part of our pan-India programme where senior leaders and union ministers are visiting those Lok Sabha seats that we had lost in the 2019 elections. She discussed various organisational aspects during the meeting," a state BJP leader said.

In that year's Lok Sabha polls, the BJP won 18 seats, while the ruling TMC emerged victorious in 22 out of the total 42 constituencies in West Bengal. The saffron party's current tally in the state is 17, as it lost the Asansol seat to TMC in a by-poll held in April this year.

The state BJP unit is plagued by infighting and exodus after the assembly poll defeat last year.

It has been fighting hard to keep its flock together after former union minister Babul Supriyo, MP Arjun Singh and five MLAs, including its national vice-president Mukul Roy, switched over to the TMC since the assembly poll results were out.