‘I am a cobra, I will bring death in one fell swoop,’ he says at Modi’s rally in Calcutta
Veteran actor Mithun Chakraborty joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday and began his new political journey with a new dialogue.Ek chobol chobi”(One-hit death).
Chakraborty was once close to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and a Rajya Sabha MP from the Trinamool Congress before resigning from the Upper House in 2016.
He joined the BJP at a rally on the Brigade parade grounds, minutes before Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the meeting. Mr. Modi described Mr. Chakraborty as “Bengal’s own son”, whose life exemplified “struggle and success”.
“Today is like a dream for me. I never imagined that I would be sharing the podium with the greatest leader of the greatest democracy, our Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ”said Chakraborty. He added that he had a “dream of working for the poor, oppressed, which is being fulfilled.”
Mr. Chakraborty is undoubtedly one of West Bengal’s cultural icons, still having a considerable following across the state. He was greeted with much applause in the Brigade parade grounds. The actor did not disappoint his fans by repeating a dialogue from one of his films: “Ami jol dhorao noi, bele borao noi, ami ekta cobra, jat ghokhro, ek chhobole chhobi [I am not a jol dhora (water snake), I am not bele bora (another species of non-poisonous snake), I am a cobra, I will bring death in one strike]. “Mr. Chakraborty said that he was a proud Bengali and that he would always stand next to the poor.
Later, speaking to reporters, the 70-year-old actor said he would not point out to anyone why he had left the TMC. “I can only say that it was my bad (wrong) decision,” he said. Chakraborty said that the BJP was the only party that worked for the poor. ‘You can call me selfish, but all I can say is that I want to support the poor … we will all work to make the Prime Minister come true.’Sound bangla‘(Golden Bengal) “.
Trinamool Congress leadership expressed disappointment with the development. TMC MP Sougata Roy said that Chakraborty had been a supporter of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), after which he campaigned for the TMC in 2014, after which he was sent to Rajya Sabha with the support of the TMC. Mr. Roy wondered when Mr. Chakraborty would make a political U-turn again.
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