You have been integrated with BJP: Samik tells Suvendu not to dwell on the past

West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Samik Bhattacharya connected Thursday (December 25, 2025) told Leader of Opposition successful State Assembly Suvendu Adhikari astatine a nationalist gathering that helium has been integrated with the BJP and helium should not dwell connected the past.

Since the disagreement betwixt the aged guards and caller enactment has been an irritant for the party, the State portion of BJP connected Thursday organised a gathering inviting each elder leaders of the enactment to attend.

During the event. Mr. Adhikari took to the signifier and said that different from the aged and caller leaders a conception joined the BJP aft being expelled from different parties oregon getting disillusioned with them.

“I beryllium to this group. I near 5 Ministries and the chairmanship of 3 cooperative banks to articulation the BJP.” the Nandigram MLA said.

Soon aft Mr. Adhikari’s speech, the BJP State president said “I volition entreaty to Suvendu Adhikari, you volition not accidental this again successful immoderate aboriginal meeting. Because, you person present go integrated with the BJP’. The remark drew wide applause from the BJP leaders gathered astatine the venue.

Suvendu Adhikari who was a salient Minister successful the Trinamool Congress authorities near the Trinamool Congress successful December 2020 to articulation the BJP, months earlier the Assembly polls successful the State. In the 2021 Assembly polls, Mr. Adhikari defeated Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from Nandigram Assembly seat. The stature of Mr. Adhikari has grown successful the enactment since past and present helium has emerged arsenic 1 of astir important leaders of the party.

Samik Bhattacharya connected the different manus has decades of relation with the enactment and was elected arsenic enactment president lone a fewer months agone successful July 2025. Ever since being appointed BJP president Mr. Bhattacharya has tried to span the disagreement betwixt aged guards and caller entrants of the enactment and tried to instrumentality everyone along.

“People person to beryllium taken from society. They cannot beryllium ordered from Kumaruli (potters colony celebrated for making clay idols) ! So determination is nary old, nary new. Everyone is conscionable BJP.” helium said.

Mr. Bhattacharya who is besides a Rajya Sabha MP said that the nonsubjective is to decision Trinamool Congress successful the adjacent year’s Assembly polls. “It is present oregon never,” helium said, adding that the radical of the State privation to region Trinamool Congress retired of power.

The gathering which was organised connected the commencement day of erstwhile Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee saw the beingness of respective erstwhile presidents of the enactment including Rahul Sinha and Union Minister and BJP MP Sukanta Majumdar.