Rashtriya Sewak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat arrived in Kolkata on December 30 on
a two-day visit to West Bengal. Following his arrival in Kolkata today, Bhagwat visited
All India Football Federation (AIFF) president Kalyan Chaubey's residence in the city.
He held a closed-door meeting with him. Notably, Chaubey had unsuccessfully
contested the Krishnanagar seat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections on a BJP ticket
against TMC's Mahua Moitra.
Bhagwat is also scheduled to meet former CBI joint director Upen Biswas this evening.
Biswas joined the ruling TMC after his retirement from CBI and was the minister of
the Backward Class Welfare Department from 2011 to 2016. Biswas played a key role
in calling out the irregularities in teacher recruitment in the state for which
investigations are on. He resigned from the TMC in 2021.
On Sunday, Bhagwat is scheduled to head a closed-door organisational meeting of the
RSS at its state headquarters, Keshab Bhavan. The issue of better coordination
between the BJP and RSS is expected to come up there, a leader of the party said.
Also on Sunday, he is scheduled to meet veteran actor Victor Banerjee, who
unsuccessfully contested the 1991 Lok Sabha polls from the Kolkata North-West seat
on a BJP ticket.
Bengali