Sukanta Majumdar, First-Time MP, Is New Bengal BJP Chief
NDTV
Sukanta Majumdar, a professor of Botany, takes over as Bengal BJP chief amid a host of leaders pink-slipping the party and switching over to the ruling Trinamool Congress - with MP and former Union Minister Babul Supriyo the latest to switch camps.
Sukanta Majumdar, a first-time MP, has been appointed chief of the BJP in Bengal, replacing Dilip Ghosh, who has been given a role in Delhi in the middle of an exodus by party leaders to the ruling Trinamool.
"The party has given such a big responsibility to an ordinary worker like me. This can only be possible in BJP. No other political party can take such a step. I will try to live up to the expectations of the high command and to the trust they have shown in me," Mr Majumdar was quoted saying by news agency ANI after he was named the top BJP leader in the state.
The sources in the BJP said that the top brass decided to appoint Sukanta Majumdar keeping in view the party's good show in north Bengal.
With Leader of the Opposition in Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, hailing from south Bengal, and Mr Majumdar from north, the BJP seems to be making efforts to reinvigorate the organisation in the state after the assembly poll debacle.
