Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to deliver the opening salvo of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s 2026 West Bengal Assembly election campaign with a massive public rally in Arambag, Hooghly district, on either 13 or 14 December. The state BJP leadership has already submitted formal requests to the district administration for necessary permissions, and party insiders confirm that the Prime Minister’s Office is in the final stages of clearing the dates, signalling an aggressive start to the saffron camp’s bid to dislodge the Trinamool Congress government.

Following Modi’s visit, the BJP plans to unleash a series of high-profile rallies featuring Union Home Minister Amit Shah, party president JP Nadda, and other central heavyweights throughout December and January. Sources within the state unit describe this sequence as a “mega beginning” intended to galvanise grassroots workers and project unassailable organisational strength in a state where the party narrowly missed power in 2021 despite securing 77 seats and nearly 39 per cent of the vote share.

In a meticulously coordinated move, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat will arrive in West Bengal for an extensive six-day tour starting 18 December—just days after Modi’s rally. The Sarsanghchalak is expected to address large gatherings in Siliguri on 18-19 December and engage with intellectuals and opinion-makers at Kolkata’s Science City auditorium on 20 or 21 December, continuing the pattern of similar outreach programmes he has conducted in Delhi and Mumbai as part of the RSS centenary celebrations.

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Adding religious and cultural momentum, three prominent Hindu organisations—operating under acknowledged RSS guidance—will host the ‘Panch Lokkho Konthe Geeta Path’ at Kolkata’s historic Brigade Parade Ground on 7 December, where an estimated five lakh participants will simultaneously recite verses from the Bhagavad Gita. The event replicates a highly successful 2023 edition at the same venue and is explicitly designed to reinforce Hindu identity and solidarity ahead of the polls.

With Hindus comprising roughly 70 per cent of West Bengal’s electorate, the BJP has set an ambitious target of increasing its vote share by 6-7 percentage points to reach 45-46 per cent, a figure party strategists believe would make Trinamool Congress’s re-election mathematically difficult. The campaign heavily banks on Hindu consolidation, coupled with the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, which the party claims will remove approximately one crore dead, duplicate, and allegedly bogus voters—moves widely perceived as aimed at neutralising perceived demographic advantages of the ruling dispensation.

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