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Modi gives ‘six-point formula’ to BJP booth workers ahead of Bengal polls

Kolkata, April 14 (UNI): With just nine days left for the first phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday held a virtual interaction with BJP booth-level workers and offered a six-point strategy to strengthen the party’s prospects in the state, according to BJP sources.
The meeting, conducted via the NaMo App from Delhi, lasted for over an hour.
Selected from suggestions submitted earlier, five booth-level workers—Rina De from Kasba, Jura Kindo from Phansidewa, Nilotpal Bandyopadhyay from Bankura, Chandan Pradhan from Salboni, and Rakesh Sarkar from Shantipur—interacted directly with the Prime Minister and shared their feedback.
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