All is not looking well for the BJP in West Bengal.
Amid a spate of defections of BJP leaders to the Trinamool Congress, the party's state chief Dilip Ghosh was shifted to the post of the national vice-president, well before his term was due to end.
In his stead, Sukanta Majumdar, a relatively lesser-known first-time MP, has been appointed as the chief of BJP in Bengal, at a time when the party seems to be facing a very serious organisational crisis at the state level.
While there have been complaints about Ghosh's leadership, especially since the BJP faced a humiliating defeat in the state Assembly polls, the change of guard is also believed to have been spurred by a series of desertions from the party that has exposed a chink in its armour.