On Wednesday, 17 February 2021, Bengali actor Yash Dasgupta, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in Kolkata. Dasgupta joined the party in presence of BJP leaders Kailash Vijayvargiya and Mukul Roy. Vijayvargiya conferred the membership of the party upon Dasgupta.
Among others who joined the party along with Dasgupta are :- Ashok Bhadra, Mallika Bandyopadhyay, Papia Adhikari, Soumili Ghosh Biswas and Tramila Bhattacharya.
He has acted in films such as - One, Mon Jaane Na, Total Dadagiri, Fidaa, to name a few. "More youth should come into politics for the betterment of the country," Dasgupta was quoted as saying by local media after he joined the BJP.
There were earlier speculations that Dasgupta could join BJP ahead of the West Bengal Assembly polls.
Party stalwarts such as Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP chief JP Nadda have visited the poll-bound state and expressed confidence that Mamata Banerjee will be ousted as CM in May. While the BJP is confident that it will bag more than 200 seats in the Assembly polls, the TMC has claimed that the BJP will be unable to cross even the double-digit mark.
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