Srabanti Chatterjee quits BJP

Well-known Bengali actor Srabanti Chatterjee, who joined the BJP before the Assembly polls earlier year, on Thursday announced her decision to quit the party.

“Severing all ties with the BJP, the party for which I fought the last State elections. Reason being their lack of initiative and sincerity to further the cause of Bengal,” she tweeted.

Ms. Chatterjee joined the BJP on March 1 and was nominated as its candidate from the Behala Paschim constituency in south Kolkata against Minister and senior Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee. She lost the election by a margin of over 50,000 votes.

The BJP is grappling with a series of bypoll loses after its defeat in the Assembly polls.