The West Bengal unit of the BJP on Friday released a list of 25 organisational district presidents, bringing in 17 new faces ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections.
The BJP has 43 organisational districts in West Bengal, which cover the 42 Lok Sabha constituencies and 294 Assembly constituencies in the state. Party insiders said that the names of the remaining 18 organisational district presidents will be announced soon.
As per the list issued by the party’s state general secretary and legislator, Dipak Barman, who was the returning officer for the internal organisational polls, of the 25 organisational districts where new presidents have been announced, 19 are from South Bengal and six from North Bengal.
Party sources said that the BJP follows a ‘one person, one post’ policy and therefore, district presidents who have become MLAs will have to give up their posts. In Cooch Behar, for example, as Sukumar Roy has become an MLA, Abhijit Burman has been named the new district president.
Similarly, in Arambagh, MLA Biman Ghosh has been replaced as district president by Sushanta Bera. In Tamluk, Tapasi Mondol, who recently left the party, has been replaced by Malay Singha, and in Kanthi, Arup Kumar Das has been replaced by Somnath Roy.
In Jalpaiguri, where local-level internal conflicts are brewing, Shyamal Roy has been named the district president in place of Bapi Goswami. In Maldaha Uttar, Ujjal Dutta has been replaced by Pratap Singh.
Certain district presidents have allegedly been changed due to their poor performance in the Lok Sabha elections, sources said. In Maldaha Dakshin, Partho Ghosh has been replaced by Ajay Ganguli. Similarly, in Jangipur, Subal Chandra Ghosh has been named BJP district president in place of Dhananjay Ghosh; in Barasat, Tarun Kanti Ghosh has been replaced by Rajib Poddar; in Basirhat, Tapas Ghosh has been replaced by Sukalyan Baidya; and in Kolkata North Suburban, advocate Arijit Bakshi has made way for Chandi Charan Roy.
A poor show in the Lok Sabha elections has allegedly led to Ramaprasad Bhattacharya (Howrah Town) and Mohan Adak (Serampore) being replaced by Gouranga Bhattacharya and Suman Ghosh, respectively, sources said.
Party insiders said Hooghly district president Tushar Majumdar has been replaced by Gautam Chatterjee due to a winning Lok Sabha seat being lost due to an alleged conflict between former MP Locket Chatterjee and Majumdar.
In Bankura, Sunil Rudra Mondol has been replaced by Prosenjit Chatterjee. In Purulia, Vivek Ranga has been removed from his post, allegedly due to a lot of infighting in the unit, and has been replaced with Shankar Mahato. In Asansol, Dilip Dey has been replaced by Debtanu Bhattacharya.
Speaking to The Indian Express, BJP MP and spokesperson Shamik Bhattacharya said, “These are internal party decisions. What the party thought was good, has been done.”