Can celebrities help the Trinamool defeat the BJP? Mamata Banerjee has fallen back on a tried and tested strategy of fielding well-known faces as party candidates. Filmmaker Raj Chakraborty and other Trinamool celebrity candidates with party MP Derek O'Brien. | Twitter On Sunday, headlines out of poll-bound West Bengal were dominated by the news of actor Mithun Chakraborty joining the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the prime minister’s rally in Kolkata. But when it comes to the celebrity quotient, the Trinamool Congress is not far behind. On Friday, as Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee announced her party’s candidate list for the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections, a television news channel broadcast images from the office of Bengali film director Raj Chakraborty, who sat watching the chief minister’s press conference with a few actors.