Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal: Difference between revisions

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| president = [[Dilip Ghosh (politician)|Dilip Ghosh]]

| Vice President = [[Arjun Singh(politician) | Arjun Singh]]

|leader_title =            |leader =[[Suvendu Adhikari]]<br/>([[Leader of Opposition]])                        | ppchairman = [[Locket Chatterjee]]  

| ideology          = {{ublist|[[Hindutva]]<br/>[[Integral humanism (India)|Integral humanism]]<ref name="mathewjoh"/><br/>National Integrity<ref name="Angana.p">{{cite book |last1=Chatterji |first1=Angana P. |last2=Hansen |first2=Thomas Blom |last3= Jaffrelot|first3=Christophe |date=2019 |title=Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism Is Changing India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zcObDwAAQBAJ&q=BJP%27s+Hindutva+ideology |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |pages=100–130 |isbn=978-0-190-07817-1 |author-link1=Angana P. Chatterji |author-link2=Thomas Blom Hansen |author-link3=Christophe Jaffrelot }}</ref><br/>[[Neoliberalism]]<ref name ="Surajit 2017">—{{Cite book|last=Mazumdar|first=Surajit|title=Neo-Liberalism and the Rise of Right-Wing Conservatism in India|publisher=University Library of Munich|year=2017|location=Germany}}<br />—{{cite journal |last1=Gopalakrishnan |first1=Shankar |title=Defining, Constructing and Policing a 'New India': Relationship between Neoliberalism and Hindutva |journal=Economic & Political Weekly |date=July 7, 2006 |volume=41 |issue=26 |pages=2803–2813 |jstor=4418408 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4418408 |access-date=26 September 2020}}<br />—{{cite journal |last1=Wilson |first1=Kalpana |last2=Ung Loh |first2=Jennifer |last3=Purewal |first3=Navtej |title=Gender, Violence and the Neoliberal State in India |journal=Feminist Review |date=July 2018 |volume=119 |issue=1 |pages=1–6 |doi=10.1057/s41305-018-0109-8|s2cid=149814002 |url=https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/25540/1/wilson-ung-loh-purewal-introduction-gender-violence-and-the-neoliberal-state-in-India.doc.pdf }}<br />—{{cite journal |last1=Mathur |first1=Navdeep |title=The low politics of higher education: saffron branded neoliberalism and the assault on Indian universities |journal=Critical Policy Studies |date=2018 |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=121–125 |doi=10.1080/19460171.2017.1403343|s2cid=148842457 }}</ref><br/>[[Conservatism in India|Conservatism]]<ref name="mathewjoh">{{cite book |last1=Johnson |first1=Matthew |last2=Garnett |first2= Mark | last3=Walker |first3= David M |date=2017

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{{bar percent|[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color }}|38.14}}

{{bar percent|[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016]]|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color }}|10.16}}

{{bar percent|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color }}|6.52}}

{{bar percent|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color }}|1.93}}

{{bar percent|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color }}|5.19}}

{{bar percent|[[1996 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1996]]|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color }}|6.45}}

{{bar percent|[[1991 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1991]]|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color }}|11.34}}

{{bar percent|[[1987 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1987]]|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color }}|0.51}}

{{bar percent|[[1982 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1982]]|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color }}|0.58}}

{{bar percent|2019|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color }}|40.25}}

{{bar percent|2014|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color }}|17.02}}

{{bar percent|2009|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color }}|6.14}}

{{bar percent|2004|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color }}|8.06}}

{{bar percent|1999|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color }}|11.13}}

{{bar percent|1998|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color }}|10.2}}

{{bar percent|1996|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color }}|6.88}}

{{bar percent|1991|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color }}|11.66}}

{{bar percent|1989|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color }}|1.67}}

{{bar percent|1984|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color }}|0.4}}

The BJP's Bengali booklet released in January 2020 claimed that the [[National Register of Citizens]] will be implemented to identify any undocumented migrants including Hindus, Sikhs, muslims and non-Muslims by the Citizenship Amendment Act.<ref>[https://scroll.in/latest/949007/nationwide-nrc-in-pipeline-says-bjps-bengali-booklet-on-citizenship-law Amended citizenship law will shield Hindus when NRC will be rolled out, says BJP’s Bengali booklet], Scroll, 7 January 2020</ref><ref>[https://indianexpress.com/article/india/nrc-next-says-bjps-bengali-booklet-on-caa/ NRC next, says BJP’s Bengali booklet on CAA], The Indian Express, 7 January 2020</ref>

The West Bengal BJP has one president, twelve vice presidents and five general secretaries.<ref>{{cite news |url =https://zeenews.india.com/india/major-reshuffle-in-west-bengal-bjp-unit-chandra-bose-shunted-out-2287362.html|title =Major reshuffle in West Bengal BJP unit, Chandra Bose shunted out|publisher =[[Zee News]]|location =Kolkata|date =June 1, 2020|website =zeenews.india.com|author =Pooja Mehta|access-date =2 June 2020}}</ref> As of 2020 December the President of the West Bengal state branch of the party is [[Dilip Ghosh (politician)|Dilip Ghosh]].

|[[soumyajit dutta]]

|[[Sukumar Banerjee]]

|[[Ashim Ghosh]]

|[[Sukumar Banerjee]]

|[[Rahul Sinha]]

|2015–incumbent

|[[Cooch Behar district]]

|[[Alipurduars (Lok Sabha constituency)|Alipurduars]]  

|[[Alipurduar district]] - [[Cooch Behar district]]

|[[Jalpaiguri district]] - [[Cooch Behar district]]

|[[Darjeeling district]] - [[Kalimpong district]] - [[Uttar Dinajpur district]]

|[[Uttar Dinajpur district]]

|[[Dakshin Dinajpur district]] - [[Uttar Dinajpur district]]

|[[Malda district]]

|[[Nadia district]]

|[[North 24 Parganas district]]

|[[North 24 Parganas district]]

|[[Hooghly district]]

|[[Jhargram district]] - [[Paschim Medinipur district]] - [[Purulia district]]

|[[Paschim Medinipur district]] - [[Purba Medinipur district]]

|[[Purulia district]]

|[[Bankura district]]

|[[Bankura district]] - [[Purba Bardhaman district]]

|[[Purba Bardhaman district]] - [[Paschim Bardhaman district]]

|[[Paschim Bardhaman district]]  

|[[Purba Bardhaman district]]

| [[Purba Medinipur district]]

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