However, with the overwhelming victory of the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress in the state elections, the BJP started running out of its celebrity faces as the host of actors, who joined the party prior to the March-April assembly polls, began either lying low or quit right away.Ī top Bengal BJP leader said that “actor-turned-politicians” such as Srabanti Chatterjee, Payel Sarkar, Tanushree Chakraborty, and Yash Dasgupta – all of who unsuccessfully contested the polls – had not been seen at any BJP programme in recent months.
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She later contested the assembly polls unsuccessfully from the Behala Paschim constituency, where she lost to Trinamool's Chatterjee by a significant margin of 50,884 votes.īefore the elections, in which the BJP secured only 77 of the state’s 294 assembly seats, more than a dozen television and cinema actors with no political background joined the saffron camp. She had joined the party in the presence of the then-BJP Bengal president Dilip Ghosh and the party's election in-charge in the state, Kailash Vijayvargiya. Notably, Srabanti Chatterjee had joined the BJP in March, just ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections earlier this year, as part of a host of celebrity signings on both sides of the electoral battle.
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Severing all ties with the BJP, the party for which I fought the last state elections.Reason being their lack of initiative and sincerity to further the cause of Bengal.- Srabanti November 11, 2021