The announcement comes days after Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP national president J P Nadda visited the state and held several organisational meetings with the West Bengal unit of the party and formed the election committee.

“We have appointed 42 prabharis (in-charges) for the same number of Lok Sabha constituencies in the state. Each of them will have joint prabharis to assist them in their work. This is the first step towards setting up an election management committee which will oversee the entire election process,” Majumdar said.

According to a notification issued late on Saturday, Majumdar has appointed Nityananda Munshi as the in-charge for Jalpaiguri, with Anandamoy Barman serving as the joint in-charge. Amitava Moitra has been appointed as the in-charge for Cooch Behar.  Sushil Barman is the new in-charge for Alipurduar, with Sushanta Rava serving as the joint in-charge.

For Darjeeling, Bishal Lama has been appointed as the in-charge, with Sukra Munda and Gobindo Roy serving as joint in-charges. The in-charge and joint in-charge for all 42 Lok Sabha seats will work with the election committee of the party.