PM Modi’s popularity will pave way for BJP win: Nagendranath Ojha

PM Narendra Modi

The centrally located Ram Lila Maidan in Purulia town, where Home Minister Rajnath Singh recently addressed a public meeting, is close to the Marwari-dominated business district of the town. Drawing from this factor, BJP candidate from Purulia town, Nagendranath Ojha, a businessman, hopes to garner enough support to win his first-ever election. “We have full faith that the 20 per cent Marwari population here will vote for us,” says the 33-year-old.

BJP has fielded candidates from all the 9 constituencies in district. “Modiji has a large fan following. We are confident that BJP will make more than a mark in Bengal this time,” said Ojha.

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Attacking Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the BJP leader said, “She has just implemented some central schemes and passed them as her own. I have tried to let people know that very fact.”

In 2011, the seat was won by TMC’s Kamakshya Prasad Singh Deo. CPM’s Koushik Mazumdar was runners up with BJP’s Panchkari Mukherjee coming a distant third. Ojha too has strong opponents in TMC’s Debojyoti Prasad Singh Deo and Congress’s Sudip Kumar Mukhopadhyay. “In 2014 municipal elections, our candidate was a close second. In 2011, we didn’t have Modiji at the forefront. This year we have him backing us,” said Ojha.