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Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Samik Bhattacharya was officially declared the new president of his West Bengal unit on Thursday.
Bhattacharya, who is also a Rajya Sabha member of Parliament, will lead the saffron party in the 2026 assembly elections in the state. The party has been trying to improve the roads for some time.
In the 2021 assembly elections, BJP won 77 seats in the 294 -member Bengal Assembly. Since then, Tally has fallen below 65, 12 seats have been lost, which have been lost due to bipol due to the death of the MLA or the blame for the ruling TMC.
61 -year -old Bhattacharya was elected unopposed, in which nomination for the post was not filed on Wednesday afternoon.
Only one enrollment
The formal announcement was made on Thursday during a felicitation ceremony in Science city, which in the presence of BJP leader and former Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, who handed over the election certificate to Bhattacharya.
Prasad was a national returning officer for the election of West Bengal BJP President.
Prasad handed over the certificate to him, saying, “Only one nomination was presented for the post of President of West Bengal and he is a Samik Bhattacharya. I congratulate him.”
Bhattacharya presented his nomination papers at the BJP’s state headquarters at Salt Lake on Wednesday afternoon, along with the Leader of the Opposition in the state assembly along with outgoing President Sukanta Mazumdar and Suvandu Officer.
Bhattacharya now takes over at a significant turn, with West Bengal assembly elections in less than a year.
Who is the Samik Bhattacharya? An old RSS hand
Samik Bhattacharya is associated with the BJP’s ideological patron, the Rashtrapati Self -Self -Service Association (RSS). In 2014, Bhattacharya won his first assembly election and was the only BJP MLA in the House ruled by Trinmool Congress. He won the Basirhat South Assembly seat on a BJP ticket in a Bipol.
Only one nomination was presented for the post of President of West Bengal and he is a Samik Bhattacharya.
Bhattacharya’s rise is a sign of RSS focus in West Bengal for the 2026 assembly elections.
Bhattacharya is known for strong oratory skills and widespread acceptance between both old and new BJP workers. He is often seen quoting poets in his speeches.
Ten new state heads
Since its internal elections began last year, the party has selected ten new state heads and held elections for 28 states and center areas. It paves the way for a new national president to choose a new national president in place of JP Nadda.
However, the national president will be elected only among others after the successful completion of elections in major states like Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Delhi and Haryana.
“In Bengal, we started with a situation where we were considered to be existential. But we have never compromised on our ideology. Today, the people of this state have given us a position. TMC’s defeat is adjacent,” Bhattacharya said after taking over the party workers in their first address.
‘BJP is not against minorities in Bengal’
The people of the state have made up their mind to end the wrong way of this corrupt TMC government in the next assembly elections.
Saying the 2026 assembly elections “the fight for the existence of culture, pluralism and the legacy of Bengal”, Bhattacharya alleged that these values were facing danger under the TMC rule.
He said, “The BJP in Bengal is not against the minorities but against the politics of violence and communalism.”
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