Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya named new West Bengal BJP president

Senior BJP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya was on Thursday officially declared the new president of its West Bengal unit, and he will lead the party into the 2026 Assembly elections.

Sixty-one-year-old Bhattacharya was elected unopposed, with no other candidate filing nomination for the post by the stipulated deadline of Wednesday afternoon.

The formal announcement came during a felicitation



ceremony at Science City here, in the presence of senior BJP leader and former Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, who handed over the certificate of election to Bhattacharya. Prasad was the national returning officer for the election of the West Bengal BJP president.

“Only one nomination was submitted for the post of president of West Bengal and that is Samik Bhattacharya’s. I congratulate him,” Prasad said, handing him the certificate.