Sukanta Majumdar, Suvendu Adhikari Part Of BJP's 20-Member Core Committee In Bengal

The core members of the committee include state party chief Sukanta Majumdar, Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari, and other leaders.

The West Bengal unit of the BJP on Tuesday formed a 20-member core committee ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The core members of the committee include state party chief Sukanta Majumdar, Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari, and other leaders. The committee met in Kolkata on Tuesday to discuss the approaching elections. Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP National President JP Nadda came in Kolkata on Tuesday and attended the West Bengal BJP Core committee meeting. 

The core members of the committee are: State party chief Sukanta Majumdar, MP Dilip Ghosh, Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari, Rahul Sinha, Subhash Sarkar, Nisith Pramanik, Shantanu Thakur, John Barla, Mithun Chakraborty, Swapan Dasgupta, Dr. Anirban Ganguly, Debasree Choudhary, Manoj Tigga, Amitava Chakravorty, Satish Dhond, Locket Chatterjee, Jyotirmoy Singh Mahato, Dipak Barman, Agnimitra Paul, and Jagannath Chattapadhyay. 

West Bengal has 42 Lok Sabha seats. The Trinamool Congress gained 22 seats in 2019, but faced heavy fight from the BJP, which won 18. The remaining two seats were allocated to Congress.

With the general election only a few months away, the BJP-led NDA is riding high on the Modi wave, betting on the charm and popularity of its most visible campaign symbol. On the other side, after four key meetings, the Opposition bloc I.N.D.I.A has failed to portray its Prime Ministerial visage. Following the fourth huddle in New Delhi, West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee announced that she had suggested Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge as the PM face of their coalition. Her Delhi counterpart, AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal, also supported the plan.