The news of Bengal BJP’s recent internal row over the selection of office-bearers for the party’s youth wing has reached Delhi.

Saumitra Khan, the state chief of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, has received a call to the capital for a meeting with the party’s national leaders. Multiple sources in the state BJP confirmed that national leaders were unhappy with the row between Khan and Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh over the formation of the state committee of the youth wing.

“I’ve been called to Delhi by Kailashji and Shivprakashji. They want to inquire about the new committee in detail,” Khan told The Telegraph.

Kailash Vijayvargiya is the BJP’s national general secretary and in-charge for Bengal, while Shivprakash is the party’s national joint general secretary (organisation).

Since June, when Khan assumed office as state president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, he and Ghosh have been at loggerheads over forming the new state committee of the youth wing, with both pushing for candidates of their choice.

“The bitterness peaked over the selection of two general secretaries of the youth wing... The candidate for the general secretary post for north Bengal was chosen by the RSS, which left both the leaders fighting over the general secretary South Bengal’s post,” a source close to Khan said.

Then, last week, Khan was forced, after a prod from Ghosh, to remove a list of district presidents of the youth wing that he had circulated on social media.

Ghosh had said publicly that the final call on the list was his prerogative as the state party president.

“Saumitrada followed Dilipda’s instruction then, but it didn’t go down well with him. He is going to express his discontent in front of national leaders,” the source added.

Ghosh said he was not aware of Khan’s trip to Delhi.

“Meetings of the parliamentary standing committees are being held. Many of our MPs are in Delhi,” Ghosh added quickly.

Party sources said that much should not be read into Khan’s Delhi visit as the central party leaders were firmly behind Ghosh.

Khan, a Trinamul MP from the Bishnupur constituency in Bankura district, defected to the BJP in early 2019, and was re-elected.

Bengal BJP insiders have said in the past too that Ghosh seems to have problems with Trinamul turncoats.