Knot today? Saffron camp abuzz with ‘news’ of 60-year-old BJP veteran Dilip Ghosh getting hitched to colleague Rinku Majumdar.

 KOLKATA: Bengal BJP circles were abuzz on Thursday with "news" of former state unit president and ex-Lok Sabha MP Dilip Ghosh tying the knot with party women's wing veteran Rinku Majumdar.

The ceremony, BJP seniors said, was likely to take place at a New Town condo on Friday. They were also trying to reach out to Ghosh "to understand the reasons for his personal decision", they added.For the 60-year-old Ghosh, who joined Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in 1984 and was "loaned" to BJP in 2014, this would be his first marriage. There is likely to be a private registry at his New Town home on Friday with a bigger reception planned later in Kharagpur, his hometown.

BJP's finest hour in Bengal — when it won 18 of the state's 42 LS seats — came in 2019, when Ghosh was the state BJP chief. He also won the Midnapore LS seat for his party that year but was shunted to the Bardhaman-Durgapur seat in 2024; he lost that fight. Ghosh is in the run to be the state party chief again, say BJP seniors, adding that the timing of his decision has left them blindsided.

Ghosh did not respond to repeated calls and Majumdar could not be reached. But she acknowledged congratulatory messages from newspersons earlier on Thursday with a

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