According to a senior state BJP leader, dissolving departments and cells is a standard procedure in the party after a new president takes office.
The West Bengal BJP dissolved all of the party’s departments and cells in the state amid growing factionalism and resentment among its leaders.
In West Bengal, the BJP has 35 departments and 15 cells, including a legal department and a refugee cell. The news comes just days after Union Minister Shantanu Thakur, a member of the politically powerful Matua community, resigned from the party’s WhatsApp groups in protest of the newly formed state office bearers’ committee.
“As per Dr Sukanta Majumdar’s instructions, all departments and cells are dissolved until they are reconstituted and new appointments are made,” the state BJP said in a statement.
After being dropped from the committee, five MLAs left the WhatsApp groups in protest last month.
According to a senior state BJP leader, dissolving departments and cells is a standard procedure in the party after a new president takes office.
“When a new president takes office, he establishes new committees, departments, and cells. Sukanta Majumdar did not establish new committees and cells after taking over last year “He stated.
However, a disgruntled BJP leader told PTI that the new dispensation in the state unit has sidelined all of the party’s old-timers and experienced leaders.
Meanwhile, many BJP leaders have admitted to the media that there is a need to’revamp the party’s organisation in the state,’ but the leaders should not be fired.
Since the May 2021 assembly election results, five BJP MLAs and one Lok Sabha MP have defected to Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC), in addition to a wave of district leaders and organisers. The BJP’s electoral performance has been on a downward spiral since May 2021, when the TMC won a landslide victory in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) elections, winning 134 of 144 wards.
Source:PTI
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