12 Bengali actors join BJP

In a major boost for the BJP in West Bengal, 12 well-known Bengali actors joined the party in presence of party leaders Mukul Roy and Dilip Ghosh. The popular faces in the world of Bengali TV series and films who have joined the BJP are Rishi Kaushik, Parno Mitra, Kanchana Moitra, Rupanjana Mitra, Biswajit Ganguly, Deb Ranjan Nag, Arindam Halder, Moumita Gupta, Anindya Banerjee, Sourav Chakravorty, Rupa Bhattacharya and Anjana Basu. The new recruits came to Delhi from Kolkata and joined the BJP during a press conference. Senior party leaders Rahul Sinha and Sambit Patra were also present as the actors joined the saffron party formally. The inclusion of these popular faces is seen as the BJP's answer to the Trinamool's celebrity first-time MPs Mimi Chakraborty and Nusrat Jahan, who have managed to win the recently held Lok Sabha elections.