Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former MP Dilip Ghosh has married a party worker Rinku Majumder at his New Town residence near Kolkata on Friday.
On Thursday morning, as preparations for the ceremony were underway, BJP state president Sukanta Majumder and other party leaders such as Mangal Pandey, Satish Dhawan, Sunil Banshal, Samik Bhattacharya, and Locket Chatterjee went to Ghosh’s residence to wish him.
Ghosh, 61, was involved with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) from an early age and has served the outfit in various capacities. He is the former BJP chief of West Bengal.
“The ceremony will be very small and very few people have been invited,” a senior BJP leader said, adding that Ghosh’s mother arrived from his ancestor village Gopiballavpur.
“She wants her son to get married and Dilip da has agreed to marry at the age of sixty,” the party leader said. Ghosh has told mediapersons that he is getting married at his mother’s insistence.
People close to the former state BJP chief said that he was not very keen on getting married.
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“His fiancée, Rinku di, proposed to him after he lost the Lok Sabha election last year. On April 3, Dilip da went to Eden Garden to watch an IPL cricket match with Rinku di’s family. It was there, it was finalised that Dilip da will marry Rinku di,” said a close associate of Ghosh.
“I proposed marriage last September. However, he took his time to agree, and in December, he decided that he will marry,” Rinku Majumder said.
However, according to Ghosh’s close aide, a section of Sangh Parivar is not happy with his decision to marry.
“Some Sangh leaders came to meet Dilip da and requested him not to marry, but he said that once he has decided to marry, there is no looking back,” the aide said.
A close follower of Ghosh and his old RSS colleague on the condition of anonymity, said, “I can’t believe that he is getting married… Suddenly at the age of 60, his life is going to change. We can’t accept that. I think he got a signal that he would not be made BJP state unit president. That’s what made him take such a decision suddenly.”