BJP’s national general secretary Sunil Bansal is a man on a mission

Sunil Bansal will oversee BJP’s prep for 2024 in West Bengal, Odisha and Telangana

After its demoralising setback in the 2021 assembly election, where chief minister Mamata Banerjee held on to her fortress through a massive siege and won a hard-fought battle hands down, the BJP in West Bengal has exhibited all signs of being in trauma ward. Its strategies backfired—142 Trinamool Congress imports it fielded lost in the election, and a reverse flow began. Mukul Roy, former TMC No. 2, did a ghar wapasi. Even star MP Babul Supriyo defected. The latter’s assembly bypoll win from Ballygunge this April, along with that of Shatr­ughan Sinha from the Asansol Lok Sabha seat, capped that period of pain. The feud between state unit chief Sukanta Majumdar and Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, another high-profile Trinamool import, only darkened the gloom.