With Defections & Dissension, Why is Bengal BJP Seeming Directionless?

<div>All's not looking well for the BJP in West Bengal.<br> <br> </div> <div>Amid a spate of defections of BJP leaders to the Trinamool Congress, the party's state chief Dilip Ghosh was shifted to the post of the national vice-president, well before his term was due to end.<br> <br> </div> <div>In his stead, Sukanta Majumdar, a relatively lesser-known first-time MP, has been appointed as the chief of BJP in Bengal, at a time when the party seems to be facing a very serious organisational crisis at the state level.<br> <br> </div> <div>While there have been complaints about Ghosh's leadership, especially since the BJP faced a humiliating defeat in the state assembly polls unlike its expectations, the change of guard is also believed to have been spurred by a series of desertions from the party that has exposed a chink in its armour.</div> <div> <br> Ever since their electoral defeat in the state, the BJP has been struggling to keep its party together in West Bengal, with reports of infighting and defections. <br> <br> </div> <div>Over the past few months, four party MLAs, who were former TMC leaders, have gone back to the TMC – Mukul Roy being one of the prominent faces among them. <br> <br> But after Roy's 'ghar wapsi,' former Union minister and two-time Asansol MP Babul Supriyo switching to the TMC was perhaps a bigger blow to the BJP.<br> <br> Now, with murmurs of more possible defections, will the reshuffling in the state leadership be able arrest the niggling problems within the party? <br> <br> </div> <div>What will be the task ahead for Sukanta Majumdar, the new state unit chief? Why is the party seeming so directionless and imploding with dissension in West Bengal? Tune in!<br> <br> <strong>Producer and Host: </strong>Shorbori Purkayastha<br> <strong>Guests: </strong> <br> Ishadrita Lahiri, Kolkata Correspondent, The Quint<br> Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, Senior Journalist</div> <div> <strong>Editor:</strong> Shelly Walia<br> <br> </div> <div> <strong>Music:</strong>