India, July 3 -- Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya has been unanimously elected as the new West Bengal BJP president on Thursday.

The senior BJP leader got elected to the post unopposed as no other candidate filed nomination for the post till the deadline on Wednesday.

Bhattacharya on Wednesday had submitted his nomination papers at the BJP office in Salt Lake in the afternoon, along with outgoing state president Sukanta Majumdar and Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly Suvendhu Adhikari.

A senior BJP leader had earlier said that the 61-year-old Rajya Sabha MP, being the sole candidate for the post, would be "declared elected unopposed".

The formal announcement was made during a felicitation ceremony at Kolkata's Science Cit...