BJP appoints two new District Presidents in Kolkata

Kolkata, 27 June (HS)  In a serious bid to improve the party’s poll prospect in Kolkata during next year’s State Assembly elections, the West Bengal state unit of BJP today replaced two district presidents of the party in the city in the midst of lockdown period.

Informing this, BJP sources said here Saturday afternoon that with a view to improving the party’s prospect of winning more seats in both North and South Kolkata in the 2021 Assembly elections, the state BJP today appointed BJP leader Shivaji Sinha Roy, who recently joined the party from Congress, in place of Dinesh Pande as the new district president of North Kolkata district.

Similarly, Somnath Banerjee,a long time BJP  loyalist, has now become the new district president of both South Kolkata and South Suburban (poll) districts in place of Mohan Rao, for better results.

Incidentally, BJP which clinched as many 18 of the total 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal during the 2019 Parliamentarey elections and improved its overall tally in the state by 16 more seats, had failed miserably in and around Kolkata where not even a single seat was won by the party.  All the 18 seats were won in Nadia, Midnapore, Bankura, Birbhum and  in North Bengal districts.

Keeping this in view and realising the urgency of further crystalising the party’s foothold and poll prospect in and around Kolkata for winning maximum number of seats in the 294 member state assembly next year and improve its tally from 5 last time, the BJP has now decided to bring some changes in its oganisational pattern. The sudden change of two important district presidents in the city was a case in point, feel some political observers here .