Key Highlights
- The 35-member body, finalised nearly half a year after Samik Bhattacharya assumed charge as state president, signals a deliberate political choice – to privilege organisational discipline over individual prominence, streamline campaign management, and draw a clear line between leaders tasked with fighting elections and those entrusted with running the party machinery, the news agency said.
- The 294-member West Bengal Assembly is due to go to polls in April-May.
- Trinamool Congress led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been in power for three straight terms since 2011 following a long left rule.
- The BJP has never won assembly elections in Bengal.
- Though the BJP leadership had initially planned to roll out the team before Durga Puja, persistent friction between the party's old guard and post-2019 inductees repeatedly delayed the exercise, underlining the BJP's unresolved internal churn in Bengal following its 2021 defeat, the PTI report said.
