‘Rath’ highlights BJP’s Bengal disconnect Ride fails to pull crowds in Birbhum, thereby raising questions on whether the decision to hold the procession was right
Barely 200 people turned up to catch a glimpse of the BJP’s Parivartan Yatra in Rampurhat on Wednesday with questions being raised on the party’s ability to strike a chord with Bengal where the “chariot” used for the procession generally denotes devotion and not the muscle power that the saffron camp seeks to highlight through the ride.
The second leg of the procession the BJP had initially called it
rathyatra had been flagged off on Tuesday by BJP national president J.N. Nadda in Birbhum’s Tarapith, a holy place for Hindus, in the presence of over 4,000 people.