Opinion: How Yogi Adds X Factor To BJP’s West Bengal Election Campaign

While Yogi is scheduled to address 8-10 rallies in the state, the BJP cadre, for good reason, want to see a lot more of him

This overheated election season in West Bengal, CM Yogi Adityanath has been called “Bulldozer Buddhi" and asked to “go back to UP and drink Fanta".

His momentary slip of tongue during a speech misattributing Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s quote “give me blood, I will give you freedom" to Swami Vivekananda (which he quickly corrected) has been relentlessly mocked and attacked.

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But the ground reality is slightly different. After PM Narendra Modi and home minister Amit Shah, Yogi is the most effective and high-voltage campaigner in West Bengal. His rallies have witnessed peak saffron frenzy.

The state BJP supporters see the Uttar Pradesh chief minister as the ultimate panacea for wanton corruption and brazen Muslim appeasement. They openly say that West Bengal needs a CM like Yogi........

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