Actor Mithun Chakraborty joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday at Brigade Parade Ground, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to address a rally later in the day.
Chakraborty was welcomed into the party fold by BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya and state party chief Dilip Ghosh among others.
Actor Mithun Chakraborty joins BJP at PM Shri @narendramodi's rally at Brigade Parade Ground, Kolkata.#ModirSatheBrigade pic.twitter.com/gvIMfmmNFb
March 7, 2021Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat had met the actor at his Mumbai residence last month setting off speculation that he might join the BJP.
Chakraborty, a former Rajya Sabha member of the TMC, had quit the Upper House in 2016 after his name surfaced in Saradha Ponzi scam.
The PM will be addressing a poll rally in Kolkata, giving a major thrust to the saffron party's campaign ahead of Bengal's eight-phase assembly elections, starting March 27.
Ghosh has claimed that the PM's election rally will be attended by nearly 10 lakh people.
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