BJP Focuses on Development and Reaches Out to Minority Voters Ahead of Rejinagar Bypoll in West Bengal

'Not the time for Babri-Mandir': BJP shifts tack to development in Bengal bypoll. On a small makeshift stage in Begunbari area of Rejinagar, BJP Bengal president Samik Bhattacharya stands beside party candidate Shankharavh Sarkar, as others jostle for space. The public meeting has come at the end of an impressive road show involving over a hundred motorcycles. The crowd gathered around the stage is predominantly Muslim, with others looking on from balconies and rooftops. "In the last elections, our candidate lost by a huge margin. Minority voters were not with us. But this election is different," says Bhattacharya. Days after Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari said that the