Kolkata: When Mithun Chakraborty accepted the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) flag from Dilip Ghosh, President of the party’s West Bengal unit, at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally at the Brigade Parade ground on Sunday, it ended their search for at least one larger-than-life cultural icon from the state for the ensuing elections.
It’s been out in the open how BJP, apart from pulling out on all stops on the political front, had been trying to woo Sourav Ganguly, ‘Dada’ to the cricket fraternity, to be their face to take on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s persona - an effort which had taken a hit after the former took ill in early January. In the build-up to Sunday’s mega rally, the media was again abuzz with the rumours of Ganguly, Chakraborty and Prasenjit Chatterjee - biggest star in the regional film industry after the Uttam Kumar-Soumitra Chatterjee era to be present in the Prime Minister’s rally and would be bestowed with the party membership.
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