Dilip Ghosh (born 1 August, 1964) is an Indian politician from West Bengal. He is the incumbent Member of Parliament from the Medinipur constituency and current President of the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Ghosh held charge of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, before joining the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2014.
After completing his secondary schooling, Ghosh claims to have pursued diploma in engineering from a polytechnic college in Jhargram over an affidavit filed with the Election Commission of India; however the lone polytechnic institute in the region – Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Polytechnic has since denied the claims over a RTI reply.
In 1984, he formally joined Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), an Indian right-wing, Hindu nationalist organisation as a volunteer.
He is known for his intemperate language and repeated calls to violence. In May 2016, he raised a controversy when he said girl students of Jadavpur University "below standard and shameless who are always in search of opportunity to be in the company of male students". In August 2019, he declared that the Trinamul Congress workers’ families would be wiped out if he would start killing them. Triggering controversy, he even ordered his party workers rather to take revenge against TMC and even the police through violence. In September 2019, terming the Left and ultra-Left students of Jadavpur University “anti-nationals" and "terrorists", he insinuated that his party would conduct a “Balakot-like surgical strike” on the JU campus to “drive out the communists”. In November 2019, he stirred up a controversy with his remark stating that foreign cows are aunties, Indian cows produce gold. “The characteristics of Indian cows is that its milk has gold which is why its colour is yellow to some extent. “The Indian cows have hump. But the foreign cows do not have it,” he said while addressing a gathering at an event Gopa Ashtami Karyakram organised by him and Gavikalyan Samity at Burdwan. He also courted controversy when he attacked "few intellectuals" for having beef on roads and asked them to consume 'dog meat' at their homes. In December 2019, he was embroiled in a controversy when he said his party allows people to create trouble because the media looks for news.He drew criticism when he turned away an ambulance which tried to make way through a rally he was addressing in Nadia. While the ambulance was actually carrying a patient. He claimed that " TMC are doing it purposely. It is their tactic to disrupt the rally". On January 2020, he again raised controversy by remarking that West Bengal has turned into hub of anti-nationals. He also courted controversy when he said anti CAA intellectuals are 'devils' and 'parasites' who don't know about their parents. On January 28, 2020, he raised another controversy when he questioned why nobody was dying at the Shaheen Bagh protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act when several people had lost their lives waiting to withdraw money from banks during the demonetisation initiative over three years ago. "What surprises me is that people were dying after standing in line for two to three hours. But now women and children are sitting in temperatures as low as 4-5 degrees Celsius but nobody is dying! What nectar did they have? I am astonished! What is their incentive (for staying alive)?" he said at an event organised by the Kolkata Press Club. On January 30, he courted yet another controversy with his remark stating that, "Unless you visit jail, you cannot be a political leader". His comments drew widespread criticism from opposition parties when a lone woman carrying anti CAA poster was heckled by his partyman. Later while speaking to newsmen, Ghosh justified the heckling of the woman saying "Our men did the right thing. She should thank her stars that she was only heckled and nothing else was done to her".
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