Keypoints:
- After joining BJP, amid the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections, actor Mithun Chakraborty raised a new poll slogan “Ek chhobole chhobi” (finish in one attack), in a veiled attack on the Trinamool Congress (TMC).
- Mithun joined BJP at the Brigade Parade Ground where PM Narendra Modi addressed his first rally after the announcement of the West Bengal Assembly poll schedule.
On Sunday, actor Mithun Chakraborty joined BJP at a rally in Kolkata. The actor was welcomed to the party fold by BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya and state president Dilip Ghosh among others. While he was addressing sea of supporters at the Brigade Parade Ground after joining BJP, he said that the BJP has given him a platform to fulfil his aspiration.
Borrowing a dialogue from one of his movies, the actor said that ‘a cobra who can kill people in one bite’.
Speaking at the rally, BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty said: “I once dreamt of doing something big in life but I never dreamt of being on a platform where such big leaders and the leader of the biggest democracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji will be present.”
“Ami joldhorao noi, bele borao noi… ami ekta cobra, ek chobol-ei chobi (Don’t mistake me for a harmless snake, I am a cobra, can kill people in one bite),” he said amid a rousing cheer from supporters.
Reciting a dialogue from his 2006 hit film, “MLA fatakeshto”, the actor said, “Marbo ekhaney…lash porbay shoshaney (‘i will thrash you here. Your body will be found at the crematorium.”
” I always wanted to do something big in life, but had never dreamt of being a part of such a huge rally which is to be addressed by world’s most popular leader Narendra Modi. I wished to work for the poorer sections of our society, and that wish will now be fulfilled,” he said.
Chakraborty was nominated to the Rajya Sabha by the TMC in 2014. He, however, resigned from the Upper House in 2016, after his name surfaced in the Saradha ponzi scam.
The national award-winning actor said he had always wanted to work for the underprivileged, and the saffron camp has given him a platform to fulfil his aspiration.
