BJP would have won Bengal polls, but for Covid: Nadda

Kolkata: A year after the party’s defeat in the high-octane West Bengal Assembly polls, BJP president J P Nadda on Thursday claimed that the party would have come to power had the devastating second wave of Covid not affected the campaigning.

Reaching out to the people of the state, Nadda also said that the party will continue its fight to uphold the Bengali pride and expose those who try to demean it.

“With the speed we had picked up during the election campaign, it was quite evident that we would strike the right chord and come to power. But the second wave of Covid just after the fourth phase of polling forced us to call off our campaign,” Nadda said while addressing a citizens’ meet.

West Bengal witnessed a marathon eight-phase Assembly election last year. “After the fourth phase, the campaign had virtually come to a standstill,” he said.