’BJP confident of opening account in Kerala’

Kolkata: The BJP is confident of opening its account this time in Kerala and win some seats in West Bengal and Assam during the assembly elections, party national spokesperson Syed Shahanawaz Hussain said today.

The party would would fight Congress, its ally Trinamool Congress and CPI-M in West Bengal, he said. "Congress has become isolated politically because of involvement in corruption. People are fed up with it. There is not a single ministry in the Manmohan Singh government where there is no corruption. The entire cabinet is responsible for the government's failure," Hussain said.

The CPM, he said, also had no right to seek votes because of its "misrule" of the state in the last 35 years. BJP West Bengal President Rahul Sinha said that senior party leaders L K Advani, Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Syed Shahanawaz Hussain and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi would campaign in the first phase of the polls in north Bengal.