Dilip Ghosh

Some Lesser Known Facts About Dilip Ghosh

• He was born into a modest family in a village of Paschim Medinipur district, West Bengal.

• After completing his education at a village school, he moved to Jhargram for higher education.

• Soon, he inclined towards the ideology of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and joined it as a Pracharak.

• Ghosh was sent to Andaman and Nicobar Islands as the in-charge of RSS.

• He also worked as an assistant to former RSS chief KS Sudarshan.

• After joining BJP, he defeated his nearest rival Gyan Singh Sohanpal (Congress) in the May 2016 West Bengal Assembly election.

• Gyan Singh Sohanpal of Congress was a sitting MLA of the Kharagpur Sadar assembly seat seven times in a row from 1982 to 2011, and Ghosh’s victory, was indeed a historic one, as he was a new-comer in politics.

• In September 2016, as the President of West Bengal BJP, he went on a 7-day trip to New York, Boston, New Jersey, and Chicago, to highlight the plight of the Hindus in West Bengal.

• On 16 December 2016, he was injured during a protest against the comments of Maulana Noor-ur Rahman Barkati, the Shahi Imam of the Tipu Sultan Mosque in Kolkata in which he said that Ghosh should be “pelted with stones and kicked out of Bengal.”

• On 22 January 2018, he was admitted to a private hospital with complaints of severe back pain.