BJP Dist leader wants Dilip Gh

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BJP Dist leader wants Dilip Ghosh replacing Lakshman

Frequently posts on social media with demands to replace sitting MLA Lakshman Ghorui, that too by a BJP district committee member in West Burdwan has truly shamed the saffron party.

The district committee leader Demanded that Dilip Ghosh should be nominated for the Durgapur (Paschim) seat and the sitting MLA Lakshman Ghorui won't be offered a ticket, rather be dumped forever for his 'deep routed' allegiance with the ruling Trinamul Congress.

The consecutive facebook posts of Abhijit Bhattacharya, a district committee member of the BJP in West Burdwan shocked BJP and the party's state committee leader, MLA Lakshman Ghorui has vented his anger and reacted sharply against Bhattacharya. Ghorui blamed that Bhattacharya's posts were engineered purposely to facilitate the Trinamul Congress. Ghorui said: "No BJP member or leader can make such an irresponsible and irrelevant post. Only a TMC agent can make such deliberate nuisances to malign the hinour of the party."

The TMC meanwhile has rubbished BJP's claims and party's block president in Durgapur, Ujjawal Mukherjee said: "We don't need to inspire any BJP man to make such posts. The BJP is already a deleted chapter in people's mind here." He added: "Such posts exposed how the BJP is divided in multiple factions. They are already a ruined party in Bengal."

Bhattacharya's latest post writes: "We want a substitute candidate for Durgapur (Paschim) seat. So, bye bye Dada...". The post was aimed at Ghorui - the sitting MLA from BJP. Bhattacharya later said: "Dilip Da, as most of the BJP supporters and cadres believe, would be the fittest candidate for Durgapur (Paschim). We all want him here."

Asked why Ghosh is a preference against Ghorui, Bhattacharya said: "Uncountable cadres like me suffered severe mental depression after Dilip Da was defeated here in 2024 Lok Sabha election. Even today we can't accept this. Now, it's our moral responsibility to secure his victory in Durgapur."

Ghosh was pitted against Trinamul Congress's Kirti Azad by the BJP for Bardhaman Durgapur parliamentary seat and he was defeated by a margin of 1.38 Lakh votes where BJP 's Surinder Singh Ahluwalia had won by a margin of meagre 2439 votes in 2019. Dilip's vote share in Durgapur segments of the Lok Sabha constituency was larger than Azad's, but Azad's share surpassed in Bardhaman segments.

Bhattacharya's post incidentally was inspired by Ghosh's recent return to the BJP's mainstream politics. A section of his followers wants him in Kharagpur Sadar where an actor turned politician Hiran Chatterjee is the sitting MLA. Ghosh however hasn't passed any definite comment on the developments centering him as yet.