Srabanti quits BJP

Popular Bengali actress Srabanti Chatterjee has announced her exit from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Srabanti in a tweet said that she is severing all ties with the BJP as she cited the party’s ‘lack of initiative and sincerity to further the cause of Bengal’ as the reason for her resignation, reports India TV.

Srabanti had joined the saffron party just before the Assembly polls earlier this year.

“Severing all ties with the BJP, the party for which I fought the last state elections. The reason being their lack of initiative and sincerity to further the cause of Bengal…” the 34-year-old actress tweeted.

Srabanti, who was once close to chief minister Mamata Banerjee and the TMC, joined the BJP ahead of the West Bengal assembly election in March, and was given the ticket to contest from Behala Paschim. She, however, lost to former state school education minister and TMC heavyweight Partha Chatterjee by 50,884 votes.

The actor joins a long list of celebrities and leaders who have either quit the BJP or are maintaining a distance from the party after its defeat in the polls.

Srabanti appears in Bengali language films and has been active in the industry since 1997.