Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) silent network expansion in West Bengal

KOLKATA: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has started expanding its organisational network in West Bengal very silently and at an extremely slow pace.

The party has started this process through silently opening up their party offices in the state as well as conducting low- profile and issue- based seminars and workshops.

The opening of the party offices started with the inauguration of the state committee office in Kolkata before the Durga Puja. On Monday, on the auspicious occasion of Kali Puja, the party inaugurated its district office for Kolkata- adjacent North 24 Parganas district. The AAP leadership in West Bengal has plans to gradually open up district party offices in at least 20 districts where the leadership claims to have developed a reasonable block level organisational setup.

At the same time, the state party leadership is also concentrating on issued- based workshops and seminars in the districts. Recently, the party organised a conference on tribal population in the state at Durgapur in West Burdwan district making it clear that the tribal vote bank in the state is under focus of the party leadership.

Around the same time, AAP's district leadership in the minority dominated Murshidabad district conducted a virtual workshop for the party members in six blocks of the district. The Murshidabad district leadership has introduced a system where one can become a member of the party by giving a missed call to a particular mobile number, a system that the BJP leadership in West Bengal also introduced before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections that continued till the 2021 state Assembly polls. (IANS)

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