File photograph of Actor Mithun Chakraborty
The agitation was led by actor-turned-politician Srabanti Chatterjee, who’s contesting from the Behala Paschim meeting constituency on a BJP ticket.
- PTI Kolkata
- Last Updated:April 08, 2021, 15:09 IST
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The BJP was denied permission to carry a roadshow of Bollywood celebrity Mithun Chakraborty, who had just lately joined the saffron camp, in Behala space of the town on Thursday, following which a bunch of get together activists held an indication in entrance of a police station. The agitation was led by actor-turned-politician Srabanti Chatterjee, who’s contesting from the Behala Paschim meeting constituency on a BJP ticket, get together sources mentioned.
”The Kolkata Police didn’t permit our chief Mithun Chakraborty to marketing campaign for me in the constituency with out citing any cause. ”The Trinamool Congress can’t avert its imminent loss by such an undemocratic act of stopping us from campaigning.
Is the state authorities afraid of shedding energy?,” the favored Bengali actor mentioned. The saffron get together activists shouted slogans in opposition to the ruling TMC in entrance of the Parnasree Police Station.
BJP sources mentioned the get together sought permission to carry a door-to-door marketing campaign by the Bollywood celebrity in the Behala space after the town police had cancelled its roadshow plea on Wednesday evening. ”The door-to-door marketing campaign by him was additionally not granted on the final minute,” they claimed.
The Kolkata Police declined to make any touch upon the problem. The BJP candidate later took out a roadshow in the constituency the place the National Award-winning actor was not current.
The actor-turned-BJP candidate is pitted in opposition to TMC heavyweight and West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee who’s in search of re-election from the Behala Paschim constituency. ”We don’t have anything to do with any programme of Mithun Chakraborty. We know that the TMC has help of the folks of Behala. The BJP candidate is doing drama,” a frontrunner of the ruling get together mentioned.
Chakraborty, nevertheless, led a roadshow in Tollygunj constituency for Union minister and BJP’s candidate Babul Supriyo.
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