BJP, TMC to have several celebrities in their lists

Both the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are now harping on the celebrity candidates. After the meeting with the central election committee (CEC) the BJP sources mentioned a few celebrities’ names and their probable seats.

“In some constituencies of North Kolkata actor Yash Dasgupta and Payal Sarkar will be fielded. Anjana Basu is likely from Tollygunge and Rimjhim Mitra likely from Kasba constituency,” mentioned the BJP sources.

Coming out from the closed door meeting at BJP national president JP Nadda’s residence in the national capital, West Bengal former forest minister Rajib Banerjee said that though nothing is final but during the meeting Suvendu Adhikari volunteered to contest from Nandigram constituency.

“The central election committee will again meet in the evening to finalise the list. Even I want to contest from my home turf. But today talks were held for the first two phases of the election,” stated Rajib.

Meanwhile, amidst the joining of several celebrities from actors to folk singer and director, the TMC is also ready to put up the ‘celebrity face’ in the Assembly polls.

Actor-turned-BJP leader Subhadra Mukerjee along with folk singer Aditi Munshi and Director with Mumbai connect Dheeraj Pandit joined the ruling Trinamool Congress on Thursday.

Notably, at a closed door meeting at Trinamool Bhavan in Kolkata, the TMC supremo had decided that there will be 40 percent new faces including the Bengali celebs.