WB can go the Bihar way if polls are free: BJP

Buoyed up by Janata Dal (United)-Bharatiya Janata Party alliance's victory in neighbouring Bihar, BJP's West Bengal [ Images ] unit said on Tuesday the state would go the Bihar way if the coming assembly election is held in a free and fair manner under the President's Rule.

The result of the just-concluded Bihar assembly poll clearly indicates that if election is held in a free and fair manner under the central rule in West Bengal too, Trinamool Congress-BJP combine would capture power under the leadership of Mamata Banerjee [ Images ], General Secretary of West Bengal unit Rahul Sinha told reporters in Kolkata [ Images ].

He said a state BJP delegation, led by the party's central observer Rajnath Singh, would urge President A P J Abdul Kalam [ Images ] early in December that the coming assembly election in West Bengal be held under central rule.

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