Noted Bengali actress Sarbanti Chatterjee, who joined the BJP ahead of the assembly elections last year, announced her decision to quit the party on Thursday.
“Severing all ties with the BJP, the party for which I contested the last state elections. The reason for this is their lack of initiative and sincerity to take the Bengal issue forward.”
Ms Chatterjee joined the BJP on March 1 and was fielded from Behala West constituency in south Kolkata against minister and senior Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee. She lost the election by a margin of over 50,000 votes.
After the defeat in the assembly elections, the BJP is constantly facing defeat in the by-elections.
senior BJP leader Tathagata Roy was raising questions for the last several months About the inclusion of actors like him in the party and being given tickets for the elections. He accused BJP’s national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya and former state president Dilip Ghosh of inducting actors into the party and alleged that the party’s choice of candidates was one of the reasons for losing the election.
Several actors from the Bengali film industry, also known as Tollywood, were given tickets by the BJP, but none of them managed to win the election this year.
No effect: Tathagata Roy
Mr Roy described Ms Chatterjee’s exit from the party as a “good liberation”. He claimed that such developments would not affect the BJP’s prospects.
State BJP president Sukanta Majumdar, asserting that Ms Chatterjee’s exit would not affect the party’s prospects, said the actor could have been under pressure as she was not able to work in the industry because of her ties with her. Because of that he was not getting work in the industry. B J P.
Ms Chatterjee is not the only prominent name in the Bengali film industry to quit the BJP. few days ago actor Joy Banerjee wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and announced his decision to leave the party. Mr Banerjee was with the party since 2014 and was appointed a member of its national executive in 2017. Actors like Anidya Banerjee and Roopa Bhattacharya, who joined the BJP ahead of the assembly elections, had also announced their decision to quit the party.
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