Bengali actor Srabanti Chatterjee joins BJP

March 02, 2021 09:36

Bengali actor Srabanti Chatterjee joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in Kolkata on Monday ahead of the upcoming West Bengal assembly elections.

The actor joined the party in the presence of West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh and party's election in-charge in the state, Kailash Vijayvargiya.

West Bengal assembly elections will be held in eight phases starting from March 27 with the final round of voting taking place on April 29.

Counting of votes will take place on May 2.

While Mamata Banerjee is seeking her third consecutive term, the BJP has set a target of winning 200 seats in the 294-member state assembly.

The Congress and the Left have stitched an alliance for the polls and had already finalised the seat-sharing agreement.

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