KOLKATA: Bharatiya Janata Rep collectively (BJP) chief Dilip Ghosh, who the birthday celebration’s West Bengal unit had sidelined for months, was once help in the highlight on Thursday as he held a assembly with Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya and declared that he was once ready to shoulder any responsibility assigned to him.
Ghosh instructed reporters after assembly Bhattacharya that they mentioned preparations for the assembly elections expected in March–April. “I don’t know what responsibility will be given to me, but I in actuality have mentioned I’m readily accessible 24×7,” he mentioned.
Bhattacharya furthermore insisted that Ghosh had been with them all along. “Who says Dilip Ghosh was once away from the birthday celebration? He’s the flesh and blood of our organisation. He’ll play everywhere the self-discipline, although we bag now not be aware politics as a sport,” Bhattacharya instructed reporters after he and the enlighten unit’s traditional secretary (organisation) Amitava Chakravorty held a assembly with Ghosh for an hour on Thursday afternoon.
The are trying to bury the hatchet from all aspects comes after Union dwelling minister Amit Shah’s talk to to the enlighten. Ghosh, who was once amongst the BJP leaders invited to Shah’s closed-door assembly with birthday celebration leaders on Wednesday, mentioned at a press conference that Shah instructed him to work for the elections.
“Infrequently of us are trying to isolate some folk, but on the tip of the day, we are all birthday celebration workers,” Ghosh instructed reporters after his assembly with Bhattacharya who had been attempting for prolonged to unite various factions owing allegiance to both stale-timers or fresh leaders.
Ghosh furthermore underlined that he gathered believed that the birthday celebration erred sometime of the 2024 traditional elections in deciding to self-discipline him from Durgapur Lok Sabha seat (in West Burdwan district). “But now our job is to campaign accurate in the course of the enlighten,” he rapidly added.
Ghosh, an RSS pracharak since 1984, joined the Bengal BJP in 2015 and was once appointed unit president. In the course of his tenure, the BJP won 18 of the enlighten’s 42 Lok Sabha seats in 2019. But his 2d consecutive term was once in the reduction of immediate and he was once replaced by Sukanta Majumdar. In 2024, the BJP’s tally declined to 12.
Ghosh, then the sitting Lok Sabha member from the Midnapore seat, was once sore that he was once fielded from the Burdwan-Durgapur seat in 2024, which he misplaced.
On Thursday, Ghosh mentioned he preferred to contest the enlighten election from the 2026 Kharagpur assembly seat, which he had won previously. The seat is for the time being held by BJP’s Hiranmoy Chattopadhyay, an actor-grew to changed into-politician who had switched from the Trinamool Congress (TMC) to the BJP.
“I held the seat earlier. If the birthday celebration desires, then I’m able to contest it,” mentioned Ghosh, who has previously spoken out in opposition to the BJP inducting TMC leaders and promoting them on the cadre’s expense. Samik Bhattacharya did now not reveal on this.
In April 2025, Ghosh came below arresting attack from BJP leaders and workers after he popular Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s invitation to the consecration ceremony on the enlighten-built Jagannath temple in Digha. On the time, BJP workers had shouted slogans at Ghosh and assaulted a few of his supporters when he and his accomplice were returning to Kolkata from Digha.
Requested about that incident on Thursday, Samik Bhattacharya mentioned, “It’s a closed chapter.”
Ghosh clarified that he visited the temple totally to supply prayers to Lord Jagannath. “But when the leadership says it is a closed chapter, I will now not reveal.”
Bengal’s ruling TMC took a jibe at BJP, asserting Suvendu Adhikari, who left the TMC and joined the BJP in 2020, was once effectively working the enlighten BJP.
