Thursday, July 3, 2025

Battle of 2026 in West Bengal enters a crucial face with election of Samik Bhattacharya as state unit BJP president :::: "There was no Pakistan (prior to 1947) ever in this world"

In the 2021 assembly election, the BJP had won 77 seats in the 294-member Bengal assembly. Since then, the tally has come down to 65, with 12 seats lost either due to bypolls caused by the demise of MLAs or defections to the ruling Trinamool Congress. 


Samik Bhattacharya had made very impressive speeches on Operation Sindoor.  


"There was no Pakistan (prior to 1947) ever in this world... It was our fault. Hum log shanti ke path pe chaley ... Pakistan ban gaya (Pakistan was born because we choose the path of peace and non violence)," Samik Bhattacharya had said in London. 



He served over ten years as state general secretary of the BJP’s youth wing (BJYM) and was instrumental in maintaining coordination between the RSS and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).





An old RSS hand 


Samik Bhattacharya has been associated with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the BJP's ideological mentor. In 2014, Bhattacharya won his first assembly election and was the only BJP MLA in the house ruled by the Trinamool Congress. 


He had won the Basirhat South assembly seat on a BJP ticket in a bypoll.


Bhattacharya’s rise is an indication of RSS focus in West Bengal in the run-up to the 2026 assembly election. He is known for strong oratory skills and wide acceptability among both old and new BJP workers. 



A Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament, Samik will now lead the saffron party into the 2026 assembly elections in the state. The party has been trying to improve roads for some time now.  


"In Bengal, we started from a position where we were considered non-existent. But we never compromised on our ideology. Today, the people of this state have given us a position. The defeat of the TMC is imminent," Bhattacharya said in his first address to party workers after taking over.


The people of the state have made up their minds to end the misrule of this corrupt TMC government in the next Assembly polls, he asserted.







There are two varieties of BJP and RSS leaders in West Bengal including in Coochbehar and other pockets in North Bengal. One is 'original and sons of the soil (Rajbongsis) and the other is turncoats from Trinamool. In 2024, the original BJP/RSS workers were marginalised and this created major setback.

 

Suvendu Adhikari's functioning style is not acceptable to many, they say. 

 

The party leaders are often at dilemma on how to handle 'Bengali Hindu refugee' issue vis-a-vis sons of the soil politics in North Bengal. 

The battle will be more challenging in 2026.

 

In many pockets Hindu voters owing allegiance to BJP and also BJP karyakartas say – former state unit president Dilip Ghosh deserved to be given back his position and the mandate to lead the party in the 2026 assembly elections.

 


While they remain ‘skeptical’ about Suvendu Adhikari’s ability to deliver; they said in mid-June otherwise – Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya should be made state unit president.

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Battle of 2026 in West Bengal enters a crucial face with election of Samik Bhattacharya as state unit BJP president :::: "There was no Pakistan (prior to 1947) ever in this world"

In the 2021 assembly election, the BJP had won 77 seats in the 294-member Bengal assembly. Since then, the tally has come down to 65, with 1...