BJP’s Dilip Ghosh Dropped As Bengal Chief Amid Exodus, Gets Delhi Role

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Kolkata: Two days after BJP MP Babul Supriyo joined the Trinamool, the boss of BJP’s Bengal unit Dilip Ghosh – known for frequent controversial comments – has been replaced.
The 57-year-old has been made a national vice chairman of the party during a wider reorganisation of its leadership. BJP’s MP from Balurghat in north Bengal, 41-year-old Sukanta Majumdar has been asked to require over because the Bengal unit chief.

The reshuffle within the Bengal BJP comes two days after the party’s MP from Asansol, Babul Supriyo switched sides.

Since the Bengal Assembly elections earlier this year during which the BJP had targeted 200 seats but got only 77, four MLAs have already returned to Trinamool.

Dr Majumdar, a professor of Botany who has risen through the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ranks, said, “Dilip Ghosh has steered BJP to its current position as a robust opposition party in Bengal. He has made a big contribution to its growth. I hope to require the party forward from that time .”

Dilip Ghosh has congratulated Dr Majumdar. “Mr JP Nadda called this afternoon and said i’m being moved to the national stage. i feel this is often a recognition of my work and contribution. I had also said BJP leadership in Bengal needs parivartan to satisfy the new demands of society and therefore the party.”

But Mr Supriyo, After joining Trinamool on Saturday, publicly said Dilip Ghosh, infamous for outrageous and controversial statements, was responsible for the BJP’s debacle within the elections.

The most recent high-profile defection was of Mr Supriyo, a Union Minister till recently who contested the state polls unsuccessfully then was benched from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet.

Before him, three MLAs – Biswajit Das, Tanmoy Ghosh, Soumen Roy – jumped to the Trinamool within the last one month within six days.

Earlier, in June, former Trinamool strategist Mukul Roy who joined BJP in 2017 and won from the Krishnanagar Uttar Assembly seat in April, returned to mothership Trinamool.

The reverse defections have fanned murmurs within the BJP about the induction of variety of turncoats from the Trinamool before the polls.