Bengal Politics
Bengali actor Kaushik Roy joins BJP in West Bengal
Kolkata/IBNS: In an almost competitive politics in inducting film personalities in West Bengal, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday welcomed Bengali actor Kaushik Roy to the partyfold.
Roy, a popular face on regional television channels, joined the saffron camp in presence of BJP state president Dilip Ghosh.
Roy, who has acted in both films and daily soaps, is presently seen in Bengali serial Khorkhuto.
Kaushik Roy joins BJP in presence of Dilip Ghosh
In the run up to the assembly elections scheduled to be held by May, the ruling Trinamool Congress in recent times inducted popular Bengali film actors Saurav Das and Koushani Mukherjee.
The eastern state of West Bengal, which will plunge into high-octane polls, has witnessed popular film personalities taking up the challenge of contesting the elections in the last 10 years.
While Bengali film stars Satabdi Roy, Dev, Mimi Chakraborty, Nusrat Jahan Ruhi had successfully contested the Lok Sabha elections on Trinamool's ticket, actors-turned politicians like Roopa Ganguly and Locket Chatterjee became the BJP parliamentarians.
Support Our Journalism
We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism
IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.
