By Thepopular Bollywood actor and former TMC Rajya Sabha MP Mithun Chakraborty joined the BJP on March 7, ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally at Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata. Referring to his TMC stint as a “bad decision”, he said he has joined the BJP to “serve the poor.”
“Earlier my slogan used to be ‘marbo ekhane, lash porbe shoshane (I will beat you here, your body will land in a crematorium)’.
The BJP has been trying to rope in a popular Bengali face to counter Banerjee for some time now. Reports about the party’s attempts to get former Indian cricket team captain and BCCI president Sourav Ganguly on board have been doing the rounds for a while, but the former cricketer is believed to have told his close circle that he does not wish to join politics. The BJP also made efforts to reach out to Bengali film industry icon Prosenjit Chatterjee.
On January 23, Chatterjee had also attended the Prime Minister’s event at Victoria Memorial on the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. However, he too denied having any political ambitions.
Chakraborty had met RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat over breakfast at his Mumbai residence last month, setting off speculation that he might join the BJP.
