The West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party leadership is facing a challenge from its own workers. Protests erupted outside party offices at Barasat, Howrah, Salt Lake and on October 12 scores of BJP supporters gathered outside the BJP State headquarters at Muralidhar Sen Lane in Kolkata.
The protesters raised slogans against State president Sukanta Majumdar and state general secretary (organisation) Amitava Chakravorty . Posters of the BJP state president and general secretary (organisation) were attacked and destroyed. They also expressed their anger with MP Jagannath Sarkar. A few weeks ago, BJP Bankura MP Subhas Sarkar was locked inside his room at Bankura BJP office by party supporters and he had to be rescued by the police.
The BJP workers accused a section of the leadership of being hand in glove with the Trinamool leadership. Discontent in the State BJP leadership has been brewing since the 2021 Assembly polls in West Bengal. After the defeat at the hands of Trinamool Congress, the BJP has been suffering one electoral setback after the other. Along with a setback in the panchayat polls, the BJP lost all the three bye elections at Ballygunje, Sagardighi and Dhupguri.
