‘TMC Ka Visarjan’: New Bengal BJP Chief Samik Bhattacharya Eyes 2026 Assembly Win With ‘New Voter List’

West Bengal unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has got a new president named Samik Bhattacharya. He is also a Rajya Sabha MP and was officially named by the party on Wednesday. Samik has been assigned to lead the party in the  2026 assembly elections — a battle he described as a fight to save the state’s culture and pluralism from what he termed the corrupt misrule of the TMC.

Bhattacharya was elected unopposed, with no other candidate filing a nomination for the post by the stipulated deadline on Wednesday afternoon.The formal announcement came during a felicitation ceremony at the Science City auditorium, in the presence of senior BJP leader and former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, who handed over the certificate of election to Bhattacharya. The Rajya Sabha MP had submitted his nomination papers on Wednesday at the party’s headquarters in Salt Lake, accompanied by outgoing president Sukanta Majumdar and Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari.

Samik has taken the charge of the Bengal unit of the party at a critical juncture, with the West Bengal Assembly elections less than a year away.

“In Bengal, we started from a position where we were considered non-existent. But we never compromised on our ideology. Today, the people of this state have given us a position. The defeat of the TMC is imminent, Bhattacharya said in his first address to party workers after taking over. The people of the state have made up their minds to end the misrule of this corrupt TMC government in the next Assembly polls,” he asserted.

Calling the 2026 Assembly elections a fight for the existence of the culture, pluralism and heritage of Bengal, Bhattacharya alleged that these values are facing a threat under the TMC rule.

“The BJP in Bengal is not against minorities but against the politics of violence and communalism,” he added.

Outgoing state president and Union minister Sukanta Majumdar termed the transition a natural process in the party’s functioning.

"People across West Bengal have the same mood - 'Visarjan' of TMC. We believe that the way the election commission is working, it will be a big success in the coming days, and the Bharatiya Janata Party is also keeping a strong vigil on the process. We are confident that this time there will be no mistake, elections will be held on the new voter list, and people of West Bengal will come out and uproot TMC. There will be a people's government here...TMC has succumbed in front of the fanatic Muslim fascism, this is dangerous for the internal security of the country,” the newly-elected bengal BJP chief said.

(With inputs from PTI.)

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