BJP serves notice to Dilip Ghosh : 5 times the West Bengal leader sparked a row

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explanation from party leader and member of parliament (MP) Dilip Ghosh regarding his remarks on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. In a letter to Ghosh, Nadda has said that his comments were indecent, unparliamentary and against the tradition of the party. Ghosh courted controversy when he asked Mamata Banerjee to ‘identify her own father’.

Ghosh, who represents the Medinipur Lok Sabha seat, has been fielded from Bardhaman-Durgapur seat in the Lok Sabha elections 2024. This is not the first time that the BJP leader has courted a controversy. In fact, he himself admits that his ‘unparliamentary’ language has courted controversies.

“Many people including the party said that I used unparliamentary language, if it is so then I express my sadness at it...I will give an official reply to the notice," Ghosh told news agency ANI. Here are some occasions when Ghosh was at the centre of a political row. In March 2021 during the campaign for West Bengal assembly elections, Dilip Ghosh sparked a row when he asked West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to wear bermudas to show her injured leg.

Also Read : Watch: BJP’s ‘Mai Hi Dulha Hun' jibe at INDIA bloc’s ‘infighting’ as Lok Sabha elections loom “If Mamata Banerjee wants to show her legs, she should wear a pair of bermudas," Ghosh, then BJP’s West Bengal President had said during a campaign in Purulia. West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee injured her leg during a campaign at Nandigram in the run up to polls in February 2021, which TMC won. “Now that the plaster has been removed, she has put on crepe bandage.