Another Bengali actor joins BJP

KOLKATA: Celebrities joining the politics and fighting polls is not new in West Bengal. With the TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee starting this legacy in 2011 assembly polls, even the 2021 Assembly polls will not have much difference as now both the TMC and the BJP is depending on the celebrity faces as their probable candidates.

With Bengali actor Srabanti Chatterjee joining the BJP, it was clear that she will contest the poll scheduled in eight faces starting this month.

The actor was welcomed by West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh and West Bengal BJP observer Kailash Vijaywargiya at a five-star hotel in Kolkata. Joining the saffron camp the Bengali actor said that she is ready to contest the poll and lef t the party's senior leaders to decide the rest.