{"id":8157,"date":"2020-01-16T16:38:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T11:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=8157"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:09:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:39:16","slug":"dilip-ghosh-elected-bengal-bjp-president-for-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/dilip-ghosh-elected-bengal-bjp-president-for-second-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilip Ghosh elected Bengal BJP president for second term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharatiya Janata Paty (BJP) West Bengal president Dilip Ghosh has been re-elected for a second term to the post he held in the party. He was chosen uncontested as no one else had filed nomination for the post.<\/p>\n<p>He is at the centre of a major controversy at the moment, for saying that those protesting the Citizenship Amendment Act and destroying public property, should be shot at like dogs. A few days back, Ghosh in a public rally in Nadia district said that those involved in damaging public property <a href=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/our-governments-shot-those-damaging-public-property-like-dogs-dilip-ghosh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">should be \u201cshot\u201d like they were in BJP-ruled states<\/span><\/a>. He rued that the Mamata Banerjee government had not aimed a single bullet at the <em>shaitans<\/em> doing the same in Bengal.<\/p>\n<p>His own party\u2019s Union Minister for state Babul Supriyo <a href=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/babul-supriyo-calls-dilip-ghosh-irresponsible-for-shooting-like-dogs-comment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">condemned him and said it was \u201cirresponsible\u201d<\/span> <\/a>for him to say so. On Thursday, Supriyo said that he would like to congratulate Ghosh for being re-elected and \u201cagree to disagree\u201d on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The choice of Dilip Ghosh for the same post for another three years is significant politically. It is indicative of the fact that the BJP endorses his position despite all the controversial comments that he has made including the most recent one. It is clear that the BJP leadership would like such controversial statements to gain more attention from the media and people.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/two-firs-against-dilip-ghosh-for-should-be-shot-like-dogs-comment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two FIRs have since been filed against Ghosh\u00a0<\/a><\/span>by Trinamool Congress leaders in Nadia\u2019s Ranaghat and in Habra of South 24 Parganas, for making inflammatory statements. The complainants have accused Ghosh of \u201ccriminal intimidation, promoting enmity and hatred between religious groups and intention to cause injury.\u201d Ghosh stuck to his position and said FIRs were constantly being filed against him.<\/p>\n<p>Dilip Ghosh also made headlines by stating that \u201cIndian cows have humps, which the foreign cows don\u2019t have and the hump in Indian cows contain an artery, called <em>swarnanari<\/em> (gold artery). When sunlight falls on it, gold is made. So the texture turns yellow or golden. This milk has preventive properties and a person can live on this kind of milk only. You don\u2019t have to eat anything else. It is a complete food,\u201d he had said in November last year.<\/p>\n<p>Dilip Ghosh had joined the BJP from Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in 2014, and was appointed the party\u2019s general secretary in West Bengal. In 2015, he was chosen the state president. He won the Assembly election from Kharagpur in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>After the last panchayat elections and the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in the state (in which BJP won 18 out of 22 seats), Ghosh is considered as the main driving force for the BJP in Bengal and for his organisational strength. He was elected MP from Midnapore in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilip Ghosh has been at the centre of many controversies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":8158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[57,156,108],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-8157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-bjp","tag-dilip-ghosh","tag-west-bengal-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dilip Ghosh elected Bengal BJP president for second term - The Bengal Story<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/dilip-ghosh-elected-bengal-bjp-president-for-second-term\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dilip Ghosh elected Bengal BJP president for second term\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dilip Ghosh has been at the centre of many controversies.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/dilip-ghosh-elected-bengal-bjp-president-for-second-term\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Bengal Story\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-01-16T11:08:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-01-04T21:39:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/dilip.ghosh2_-e1579172882313.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"398\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"315\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Our Bureau\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Our Bureau\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thebengalstory.com\\\/english\\\/dilip-ghosh-elected-bengal-bjp-president-for-second-term\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thebengalstory.com\\\/english\\\/dilip-ghosh-elected-bengal-bjp-president-for-second-term\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Our Bureau\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thebengalstory.com\\\/english\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/dcbaa7f3eb86b5f47f2094adb8573b16\"},\"headline\":\"Dilip Ghosh elected Bengal BJP president for second term\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-01-16T11:08:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-01-04T21:39:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thebengalstory.com\\\/english\\\/dilip-ghosh-elected-bengal-bjp-president-for-second-term\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":460,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thebengalstory.com\\\/english\\\/dilip-ghosh-elected-bengal-bjp-president-for-second-term\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thebengalstory.com\\\/english\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2020\\\/01\\\/dilip.ghosh2_-e1579172882313.png\",\"keywords\":[\"BJP\",\"Dilip Ghosh\",\"West Bengal news\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Politics\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thebengalstory.com\\\/english\\\/dilip-ghosh-elected-bengal-bjp-president-for-second-term\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/thebengalstory.com\\\/english\\\/dilip-ghosh-elected-bengal-bjp-president-for-second-term\\\/\",\"name\":\"Dilip Ghosh elected Bengal BJP president for second term - 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