Shah arrived in Kolkata on Friday evening to a grand welcome by state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Sukanta Majumdar and Suvendu Adhikari

Soon after his arrival, he headed for a party meeting at BJP state headquarters on Muralidhar Sen Lane in the central part of the city with senior members of the party in Bengal.

Security has been beefed up around the BJP office and the state secretariat for Saturday's meeting, a police officer said.

Besides Banerjee and her counterparts and representatives from Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and Sikkim are set to attend the EZC meeting on Saturday.