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Dilip Ghosh

Dilip Ghosh
Dilip Ghosh is an active Politician who is presently the president of BJP for the West Bengal Unit. Dilip Ghosh is a member of the Bhartiya Janta Party.
By Keshav Karna | Thursday, September 30, 2021, 08:20:46 PM [IST]

Dilip Ghosh Biography

Dilip Ghosh is an active Politician who is presently the president of BJP for the West Bengal Unit. Dilip Ghosh is a member of the Bhartiya Janta Party. Dilip Ghosh was born and brought up in West Bengal. He was born on 1 August 1964 to late Bholanath Ghosh and has three brothers. Dilip Ghosh after finishing his schooling joined RSS – Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh as a Pracharak. He is also the President of BJP in the Bengal Unit.

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Dilip Ghosh Personal Life

Full Name Dilip Ghosh
Date of Birth 01 Aug 1964 (Age 61)
Place of Birth Paschim Medinipur district
Party Name Bharatiya Janta Party
Education Diploma
Profession ADVOCATE
Father's Name Bholanath Ghosh
Mother's Name Puspalata Ghosh
Spouse's Name NA

Dilip Ghosh Net Worth

Net Worth
₹45.36 LAKHS
ASSETS
₹45.36 LAKHS
Liabilities
N/A

Interesting Facts about Dilip Ghosh

In 2016, Dilip Ghosh defeated veteran Congress leader Gyan Singh Sohanpal, 7 time MLA continuously from 1982 to 2011from West Midnapur seat.
In September 2016, Ghosh went on a BJP-sponsored seven-day trip to the USA, to speak on "oppression" of the Hindus in West Bengal and infiltration of Muslims from Bangladesh.

Political Timeline of Dilip Ghosh

  • 2021: Dilip Ghosh stepped down from the post of president of the BJP state unit.
  • 2020 : In January, this year, Dilip Ghosh was re-appointed as West Bengal BJP president.
  • 2019 : Under his leadership, in this year, Lok Sabha election in West Bengal, the Bharatiya Janata Party, without any major political alliance, won 18 Lok Sabha seats out of the 42 constituencies in West Bengal with 40.25% votes. Ghosh himself contested and won the Medinipur Lok Sabha constituency in the 2019 elections by a margin of 88,952 votes and a vote share of 48.62% by defeating Trinamool Congress candidate Manas Bhunia.
  • 2017 : Elected as president of BJP for the West Bengal Unit.
  • 2016 : 2016 West Bengal Assembly election, Dilip Ghosh won from Kharagpur Sadar constituency of Paschim Medinipur district by defeating his nearest rival Gyan Singh Sohanpal (Congress). Considering the fact that Gyan Singh Sohanpal of Congress won the Kharagpur Sadar assembly seat for seven times in a row from 1982 to 2011, the victory of Dilip Ghosh, a new-comer in politics, was indeed a historic one.
  • 2015 : Appointed as West Bengal State President of BJP.
  • 2014 : Joined BJP from an RSS background and was appointed as West Bengal State General Secretary.

Dilip Ghosh Early Life

  • Early 80s: Dilip Ghosh before becoming a politician worked as an RSS volunteer and he was also the in-charge of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Dilip Ghosh has also worked as an Assistant to former RSS Chief KS Sudarshan.

Dilip Ghosh Achievements

Member of standing committee of parliament on home affairs.

Disclaimer:The information provided on this page is sourced from various publicly available platforms including https://en.wikipedia.org/, https://sansad.in/ls, https://sansad.in/rs, https://pib.gov.in/, https://affidavit.eci.gov.in/ and the official websites of state assemblies respectively. While we make every effort to maintain the accuracy, comprehensiveness and timeliness of the information provided, we cannot guarantee the absolute accuracy or reliability of the content. The data presented here has been compiled without consideration of the objectives or opinions of individuals who may access it.

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