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Actor Mithun Chakraborty, who has been Trinamool Congress’ Rajya Sabha MP in the past, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday, 7 March, at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Brigade Parade Ground rally in Kolkata.
This comes a day after the party’s national General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya met the actor at his residence in Kolkata on Saturday.
Chakraborty, 70, served as a Rajya Sabha MP for the TMC for two years, before resigning in 2016.
In his first address as a BJP leader, Chakraborty said, “I do what I say. Have faith in your dada. Dada has never abandoned you.”
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During the rally, he also recited his famous dialogue 'marbo ekhaney...lash porbay shoshaney (will beat you up here, your body will land at the crematorium) — a dialogue from his hit Bengali movie MLA Fatakeshto. However, he insisted that it will not remain just a dialogue any more.
A host of big names from Bengal’s cinema industry, popularly known as Tollywood, joined the BJP ahead of elections, including high-profile actors Payel Sarkar and Srabanti Chatterjee.
The 294-member West Bengal Assembly will go to polls in eight phases between 27 March and 29 April. The counting will take place on 2 May.
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