PM Narendra Modi to address people of West Bengal on Durga Puja: Check details

On the occasion of Durga Puja, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deliver a message to the people of West Bengal on October 22 (Thursday) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has made elaborate arrangements for this.

The live-viewing of PM Modi's virtual address will take place at 12 noon on Thursday in every polling booth across the state's 294 Assembly constituencies. PM Modi is scheduled to share his "Pujor Shubecha" (Puja greetings) message with the people of the state on Thursday when Durga Puja celebrations start there.

The BJP has made arrangements across the state for more than 25 party workers and voters to watch the address in each of the over 78,000 polling booths while adhering to social-distancing norms. In the run-up to the prime minister's address, there will be a cultural programme at the Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre (EZCC) in Kolkata from 10 am on Thursday in the presence of senior West Bengal BJP leaders.

The state BJP has made arrangements to telecast the exercise live.

West Bengal is scheduled to hold the Assembly polls in the first half of the in 2021. The BJP has emerged as the main challenger to the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and has been exuding confidence that it will end Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's 10-year-old reign in the state.

The saffron party had won 18 seats in West Bengal against the TMC's 22 in 2019's Lok Sabha polls and trailed the ruling party in terms of vote share by only three per cent.