A month after Dilip Ghosh claimed that his term as state BJP president would end in 2022 and not earlier – party national president Jagat Prakash Nadda on Monday appointed Lok Sabha MP Sukanta Majumdar as his new party president in West Bengal. did.
For the past few weeks, the names of some senior party leaders including Sukanta Majumdar and Debashree Chowdhury were in the news as the next party president in Bengal.
Majumdar was elected to the Lok Sabha in 2019 as a member of the BJP from Balurghat constituency in Dakshin Dinajpur district of West Bengal. Then, she defeated TMC MP Arpita Ghosh by a margin of 33,293 votes. Majumdar got 5,39,317 votes as against Ghosh’s 5,06,024.
When contacted, Sukanta Majumdar said, “I would like to thank all our senior party leaders for believing in me as a new BJP President in West Bengal. The party has given me this responsibility and I will try my best to live up to the expectations of my party leaders. I had a talk with Dilip da (Dilip Ghosh) and I will seek his guidance to take the party forward in Bengal.
When asked about the challenges (among the TMC’s growing strength in the state after the 2021 assembly election results) and the main objective of taking the party forward, he said, “There are challenges and I will face them. My priority would be to strengthen the booths and stand with my booth/party workers. I am confident that we will get more seats in 2024 Lok Sabha than in 2019 general election. I have my own style of working and that will be visible soon.”
Regarding the rift in the state BJP, Majumdar said that a rift is inevitable in a big family like BJP. “As long as we are ideologically united, I am not worried about it. I believe that those who are ideologically associated with the BJP will not leave and join any other party.
Commenting on Babul Supriyo’s decision to join TMC, he said that he has nothing to say about those who have left. “Babul da is senior to me and I think it would have been better if he had stayed with us in the party,” he said.
He attempted to clarify the BJP’s stand on the “partition” of Bengal. “There are some MPs who exposed the grievances of the people in North Bengal. But I would like to clarify that the BJP does not believe in the partition of Bengal,” she said.
Majumdar’s rise in the party came as a surprise to many. But those who have been with the Bengal BJP for decades know how he fulfilled the aspiration of Devi Das Choudhary, father of former state minister Deboshree Choudhary, to serve the country as a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) since childhood. did.
Majumdar is a relative of Deboshree Choudhury and when he studied at Khadimpur High School, Balurghat in Dakshin Dinajpur, Deboshree’s father groomed him as a union worker.
His father Sushant Kumar Majumdar was a government employee and mother Nibedita Majumdar was a primary school teacher. It is believed that he was not associated with the RSS.
“He was inspired by my father towards the RSS. He is my cousin and I hope BJP Bengal will progress further under his leadership. I personally feel that he has been able to lead the party towards an important goal,” said Debosree Chowdhury.
Sukanta is a grassroots leader who has a strong RSS footprint, helping the saffron brigade increase its vote share in the border areas of West Bengal.
His mentor, Debi Das Choudhary (Deboshree’s father), was a high school teacher and president of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) from 1967 to 1980 at Balurghat in the undivided Dinajpur district (later it was bifurcated into Dakshin and North Dinajpur). The Bharatiya Jana Sangh was the political wing of the RSS.
During his tenure as President, Emergency was declared in India in 1975 and several BJS leaders were arrested. Though it was difficult for BJS leaders to work during the Congress and Left rule in Bengal, Debashree and her family struggled a lot to serve the party.
This inspired Sukanta to become a Sangh and later a BJP worker.
He has a PhD in Botany from North Bengal University and also did his MSc in 2005. Born on December 29, 1979, Majumdar is the Standing Committee on Information Technology and the Committee on Petitions since September 2019. He has a special interest in quiz and football.
When contacted, outgoing former BJP president, Dilip Ghosh (who was made the party’s national vice president) said, “I wholeheartedly welcome Sukanta ji as our new state BJP president. I wish him all the best.”
Asked how challenging it was for him as the state BJP president, he said, “I became the state president in 2015 and then the BJP was not visible in the state politics. In 2019 everyone saw our performance and in 2021 we emerged as an opposition party in Bengal. I will continue to serve as a dedicated soldier of the party.”
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