Union Home Minister Amit Shah. File
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to West Bengal scheduled in the last week of March 2025 has been postponed. Mr. Shah was scheduled to visit the State on March 28 and 29 when he was supposed to hold an organisational meeting in the State.
West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar said that the visit had been postponed because it was coinciding with the Eid-ul-Fitr festivities. The proposed visit was scheduled at a time when West Bengal BJP leadership is looking for a new State BJP president. While there were reports that the new State BJP president will be announced before the Home Minister’s visit, there has been no such announcement.
Mr. Majumdar had become State president in November 2021 and his three year term concluded in November last year. Moreover, the party follows the principle of one person and one post, and the BJP MP has been appointed Minister of State for Education after the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
Recently, a number of new presidents of BJP’s organisation districts in West Bengal were elected. With an eye on the Assembly polls of 2026, the appointment of new BJP president assumes a lot of political significance. There are some speculations that the party may maintain the status quo and continue with Sukanta Majumdar as the State president till the Assembly polls scheduled next year.
Meanwhile, former West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh held a meeting with senior BJP leaders Suvendu Adhikari. Mr. Ghosh who was president from 2015-2021 has also become active in political circles. Dilip Ghosh has been the most successful State BJP president and under his leadership the BJP won 18 of the 42 seats in 2019 Lok Sabha polls. In 2024, the number of seats won by BJP had dropped to 12. Since 2021, Suvendu Adhikari has emerged as the most vocal voice of the West Bengal BJP taking on the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Mr. Adhikari on Sunday (March 23, 2025) once again set the target of 2026 Assembly polls and said nothing can stop the BJP from coming to power. He said that out of 16 Assembly seats in the Purba Medinipur district, the BJP had registered a lead in 15 seats in the last year’s Lok Sabha polls. The BJP MLA from Nandigram on Sunday (March 23, 2025) held a rally at Haldia, days after the BJP MLA from the constituency Tapasi Mondal, defected to the Trinamool Congress.
“Such rallies mark the unification of all Hindus and precede the demise of the TMC regime in the next polls. Mamata Banerjee’s appeasement policies and her turning a blind eye to the atrocities against Hindus will make her bite the dust,” Mr. Adhikari said, calling for “Hindu unity” across the State
Published – March 24, 2025 05:44 am IST
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