With an eye fixed on subsequent yr’s meeting polls, the BJP reconstituted its West Bengal unit on Monday, inducting greater than a dozen new faces together with turncoats and dropping Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose‘s grandnephew Chandra Bose who opposed the occasion’s stand on CAA and NRC.
It additionally introduced in new and youthful faces to move the occasion’s girls and youth fronts. A number of leaders who had switched from the Trinamool Congress and different events within the final one yr had been accommodated within the committee. BJP MP from Barrackpore and former TMC chief Arjun Singh was promoted as a vice-president of the occasion.
Among the many 11 different vice-presidents are BJP MP from Bankura constituency Subhas Sarkar and Mafuja Khatun, a former CPM chief, occasion president Dilip Ghosh mentioned.
Get together secretary Ritesh Tiwari and former IPS officer Bharati Ghosh had been additionally promoted as vice-president.
Senior occasion chief and Hoogly MP Locket Chatterjee, who was main the occasion’s Mahila Morcha, was changed with clothier Agnimitra Paul who had joined the occasion a couple of years in the past, Ghosh mentioned. Chatterjee was made one of many basic secretaries.
Bishnupur MP Soumitra Khan has been made the in-charge of the Yuva Morcha and Malda (North) MP Khagen Murmu of the Scheduled Tribe Morcha. Congress MLA Dulal Bar, who had joined the occasion final yr, was made in-charge of the occasion’s Scheduled Caste Morcha.
Khan, a former TMC MP, had joined the occasion final yr and Murmu, a two-time CPM MLA, had joined the occasion simply forward of Lok Sabha polls. Get together MP Jyotirmoy Mahato was inducted as one of many 5 basic secretaries together with Sayantan Basu, Sanjay Singh and Rathindranth Basu, moreover Locket Chatterjee.
State occasion president Dilip Ghosh, who was re-elected to the submit for a second time period in January this yr, mentioned the inductions had been based mostly on “efficiency” of leaders. “Significance was given to efficiency of leaders and employees. The brand new committee has been ready holding in thoughts subsequent yr’s meeting polls,” Ghosh mentioned.
Bose, who was among the many vice-presidents of BJP Bengal unit, has been a staunch critic of the occasion’s stand on the Citizenship Modification Act (CAA) and the Nationwide Register of Residents (NRC).