KOLKATA: A day after the civic poll results were announced, the West Bengal BJP made major changes in the state organization bringing a host of new faces. Changes were made both at the general secretary and vice president level.
Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar flew to New Delhi to attend an organizational meeting headed by national president J P Nadda on Thursday.
While the Hooghly MP Locket Chatterjee and Bagmundi MP Jyotirmay Singh Mahato were retained as general secretaries, MLAs Agnimitra Paul and Dipak Barman were inducted as general secretaries. Jagannath Chattopadhyay was also inducted as a general secretary of the party’s state unit.
Rathin Bose and Sanjay Singh, former general secretaries, were appointed as vice presidents of the state unit. Pratap Banerjee, Jayprakash Majumdar, Biswapriyo Roy Chowdhury and Ritesh Tiwari were dropped from the Vice president post. Saumitra Khan, who was heading the yuva morcha, was appointed as a vice president while Indranil Khan was inducted as the president of Yuva Morcha. Tanuja Chakraborty was made president of the mahila morcha of the Bengal BJP.
At the organizational meeting on Wednesday, a day after poll results were out, BJP councilors pointed out that they could have won in 12 more wards had there been a free and fair poll. “There are at least three wards including ward 42 where our candidates were defeated by 1,000-1,100 votes. In borough 4 we had a vote share of 20% while more than 14% votes were bagged in borough 8 and 9,” said a BJP leader in Kolkata.
“We did not get the vote share which we should have got. The TMC tried to give it an appearance of public mandate, but that is not the true picture,” Sukanta Majumdar said.
Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/west-bengal-bjp-makes-major-changes-in-organisation/articleshow/88436999.cms
