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Bengal polls: Actor Yash Dasgupta, six others from Tollywood join BJP
Dasgupta was welcomed to the saffron camp by BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya and party national vice-president Mukul Roy.
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KOLKATA: The BJP s Bengal’s chapter has inducted seven popular Bengali film and serial actors on Wednesday saying that the party made inroads into the culture and entertainment circle of the state.
The BJP inducted Yash Dasgupta, the actor who is also known as TMC MP Nusrat Jahan’s close friend, along with six others. Earlier, the party had welcomed five other actors from Bengal’s film industry, popularly known as Tollywood.
Former Bengal Forest Minister Rajib Banerjee has also resigned from the Trinamool (File)
Kolkata:
Three hours after he resigned from the Bengal assembly as Trinamool MLA, Mamata Banerjee s former cabinet minister Rajib Banerjee resigned from the party as well.
Mr Banerjee met the Speaker at the Assembly and submitted his resignation as MLA at about 1.30 pm. At 4.30 pm he posted his resignation letter on Facebook. This chapter is over, Mr Banerjee said after resigning as Trinamool MLA.
He had resigned as Forest Minister from the Mamata Banerjee cabinet on January 22 and even burst into tears while leaving the Raj Bhavan after submitting his resignation to the governor.
The MLA from Shantipur is the Trinamool s first exit from Nadia district (File)
Kolkata:
Mamata Banerjee s Trinamool Congress continues to lose its leaders to the BJP as the Bengal election draws closer. Today, party MLA Arindam Bhattacharya crossed over to the BJP in Delhi.
The MLA from Shantipur is the Trinamool s first exit from Nadia district.
Last week, Mr Bhattacharya had shared stage with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at a rally in Nadia.
Mr Bhattacharya had won the 2016 Assembly election from Shantipur on a Congress ticket. In 2017, he suddenly switched to the Trinamool Congress. He, however, never resigned as an MLA or sought re-election. He was a vice president of the Trinamool s Nadia district unit, which was headed by MP Mahua Moitra.