India, July 2 -- Samik Bhattacharya, a senior leader and Rajya Sabha MP, is set to become the new president of the West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party, as no other candidate filed nomination for the post till the deadline on Wednesday.

Accompanied by outgoing state president Sukanta Majumdar and Leader of the Opposition in the state assembly Suvendu Adhikari, Samik Bhattacharya submitted his nomination papers at the party's office in Salt Lake in the afternoon.

In the 2021 assembly election, the BJP had won 77 seats. Since then, the tally has come down to 65, with 12 seats lost either due to by-polls caused by the demise of MLAs or defections to the ruling TMC.

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