Atanu Biswas | | Published 13.04.21, 02:35 AM
Prior to becoming the Ukrainian president in 2019, Volodymyr Zelenskiy was a sitcom star with his only political experience being playing a high school history teacher in the 2015 political satire,
Servant of the People, who is propelled to the highest office of Ukraine after his rant against government corruption goes viral. The upcoming West Bengal election is largely riding on celebrity quotient. Both the Trinamul Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party are now flooded with actors, singers, directors, former cricketers and well-known footballers. Even the Left fielded an actor in one constituency.
The wall between glamour and politics is thin. Cricket being extremely popular, a cricketer-turned-politician is not an alien concept in the subcontinent. While Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger are often cited as