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Bengal polls: Tollywood divided ahead of Bengal polls
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West Bengal polls: Speculation around actor Mithun Chakraborty joining BJP gains momentum, here s what state BJP Vice President said
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Why the BJP is wooing Bengal’s movie stars
Why the BJP is wooing Bengal’s movie stars | India Today Insight
Borrowing a page from the TMC book, the saffron party is out to attract celebrities and prove that the wind is blowing in its favour in the run-up to the assembly election
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UPDATED: February 23, 2021 00:25 IST
Bengali actor Hiran Chatterjee joins the BJP in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Kakdwip, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, Feb 18 (ANI)
In poll-bound West Bengal, poaching politicians is passé. The newest trend is to get film stars on board. Last week, the BJP, the principal challenger to the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), inducted Yash Dasgupta and Hiron Chatterjee, well-known actors from the Bengali film industry. Half a dozen others, including cine stars of yesteryears, took flags from BJP state president Dilip Ghosh and Kailash Vijayvargiya, the party’s minder for Bengal. The buzz now is that the BJP may rope in a few p
Tollywood actor Yash Dasgupta was among nine to 10 actors and actresses who joined the BJP on Wednesday.
Although no A-lister appeared to be among the converts so far, the first such expression of solidarity from Bengal’s film and TV serial fraternity ahead of the state polls prompted the BJP to claim that it had tiptoed into the state’s cultural sphere.
“I haven’t taken this decision in a hurried manner.… The BJP is a party that lays special emphasis on the young generation. I am also young and that’s why I have joined the BJP,” said Yash, who started his career in television and debuted on silver screen with the 2016 film Gangster that also starred Mimi Chakraborty, now a Trinamul MP.
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