Ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections, actor Mithun Chakraborty, on Sunday, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s massive election rally at Kolkata’s brigade parade ground. The move comes weeks ahead of the state Assembly polls scheduled for March-April.
Chakraborty is participating in PM Modi’s mega rally in Kolkata, the first big campaign after the announcement of the eight-phase polls beginning March 27. He was handed the party’s flag by Kailash Vijayvargiya and state BJP chief Dilip Ghosh.