Bengal Election: Actor Rajshree Rajbanshi Joins BJP

Bengali actor Rajshree Rajbanshi on Wednesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the upcoming state assembly elections. She was joined in her induction by her industry colleague, actor Bonny Sengupta. Both artists joined the saffron party in the presence of party seniors in Kolkata.

These starry additions come tailing the induction of five sitting MLAs from the opposition Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Tuesday, which included Sonali Guha, a longtime associate of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Another TMC MLA to have turned over today was Gaurishankar Dutta.

Rajshree Rajbanshi, One Of Many Celeb Candidates

Rajshree Rajbanshi

Kolkata: Bengali actors Rajshree Rajbanshi and Bonny Sengupta join Bharatiya Janata Party pic.twitter.com/NgMGXkS7IA

— ANI (@ANI) March 10, 2021 BJP among other celebrity names partaking in the election campaign, the biggest of which was Bollywood actor Mithun Chakraborty who associated with the party on Sunday.

Other female actors include Bengali actors Srabanti Chatterjee and Payel Sarkar.

Kolkata: Bengali actors Rajshree Rajbanshi and Bonny Sengupta join Bharatiya Janata Party pic.twitter.com/NgMGXkS7IA

— ANI (@ANI) March 10, 2021

The BJP released its first candidate list for the Bengal polls comprising 57 members on March 6. It comprises six women. See their names here. 

TMC's Candidate List Flaunts Actors

Over at TMC, the 291-strong candidate list features 50 women. See their names here. It includes popular regional actors like Lovely Moitra, June Maliah, Sayantika Banerjee, Sayani Ghosh and Koushani Mukherjee.

On Wednesday, party head Banerjee filed her nomination in Nandigram. She will lock horns with BJP's Suvendhu Adhikari in a tough battle for the constituency that shot her to political fame back in 2011. More here.