On Monday, BJP re-established its West Bengal unit.
Kolkata:
With an eye on next year’s assembly polls, the BJP reconstituted its West Bengal unit on Monday, inducting more than a dozen new faces, including facings, and dropping Netaji’s nephew Subhas Chandra Bose, Chandra Bose, who opposed the party’s position on the CAA and the NRC.
He also brought new and younger faces to the front of the party’s women and youth fronts.
Several leaders who had left Trinamool Congress and other parties in the past year were welcomed to the committee.
BJP MP for Barrackpore and former TMC leader Arjun Singh was promoted to vice-president of the party.
Among the other 11 vice-presidents are a BJP deputy from the riding of Bankura, Subhas Sarkar, and Mafuja Khatun, former head of the CPI (M), said the head of the party’s state unit, Dilip Ghosh.
Party secretary Ritesh Tiwari and former IPS officer Bharati Ghosh were also promoted to vice president.
Party leader and MP Hoogly Locket Chatterjee, who led the party’s Mahila Morcha, has been replaced by fashion designer Agnimitra Paul who joined the party a few years ago, said Ghosh.
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Ms. Chatterjee has been appointed secretary general.
The deputy for Bishnupur, Soumitra Khan, was appointed head of the Yuva Morcha, while the deputy for Malda (North), Khagen Murmu, was appointed head of the planned Morcha tribe.
Dulal Bar, who had joined the BJP since Congress last year, has been named responsible for the party’s scheduled morcha caste.
Soumitro Khan, a former TMC deputy, joined the party last year and Khagen Murmu, twice a CPI (M) deputy, joined the party just before Lok Sabha’s polls.
Party deputy Jyotirmoy Mahato was inducted as one of five general secretaries along with Sayantan Basu, Sanjay Singh, Rathindranth Basu and Locket Chatterjee.
State party president Dilip Ghosh, who was re-elected to the post for a second term in January this year, said the inductions were based on the “performance” of the leaders.
“Importance has been given to the performance of leaders and workers. The new committee has been prepared with the polls for next year’s assembly in mind,” said Ghosh.
Chandra Bose, who was among the vice-presidents of the BJP Bengal unit, was a fervent critic of the party’s stance on the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
The former mayor of Kolkata, Sovan Chatterjee, who joined the party last year, was also not inducted as a member of the office.
With only one year left for crucial Assembly elections, the BJP opposed the ruling party for its mismanagement of the dual crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic and Cyclone Amphan.
The TMC is on a sticky window in Bengal since the last polls of Lok Sabha in which it lost 12 parliamentary seats in the BJP.
The saffron camp had then become the main competitor of TMC in the state by winning 18 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state, while the count of TMC had fallen to 22 out of 34.
