Bengal Polls 2021
Tollywood actor Sayantika Banerjee joins Trinamool Congress in poll-bound West Bengal
Kolkata/IBNS: Bengali actor Sayantika Banerjee Wednesday joined the Trinamool Congress in poll-bound West Bengal, which is set to witness star-studded assembly elections this summer.
Sayantika joined the ruling party in presence of senior Trinamool leaders Subrata Mukherjee, Partha Chatterjee and Bratya Basu.
"I am grateful to our Didi (West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee) for giving me this opportunity to serve people and considering me as deserving... I was beside Didi for the last 10 years and will continue to do so in the future," Sayantika said.
"I would appeal to people to come forward and support Didi. Bengal wants its own daughter only," she added.
Sayantika is the latest induction to the Trinamool from the film fraternity as very recently a host of Tollywood personalities including filmmaker Raj Chakraborty, actors June Malia, Kanchan Mullick, Saayoni Ghosh joined the party ahead of the elections.
However, the BJP is also not very far behind in inducting Tollywood stars as Bengali actors like Srabanti Chatterjee, Payel Sarkar, Rudranil Ghosh, Yash Dasgupta joined the saffron camp joined the saffron camp over the last few weeks.
The state will go through an eight-phase polls beginning Mar 27 and ending Apr 29.
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