Mithun Chakraborty declined to guess whether or not he might be BJP’s Chief Ministerial candidate.
Kolkata:
Actor Mithun Chakraborty, who joined the BJP on Sunday, stated he doesn’t fancy the title of a “chief”, can not reveal whether or not he’ll grow to be Chief Minister, however can promise that if the social gathering involves energy in West Bengal, “all the things might be turned on its head in six months”.
“I’m not a pacesetter. Do not name me a BJP chief. I haven’t got the qualities to be a pacesetter. I solely say I’ve a pacesetter, I’ve spoken to him,” he informed NDTV, referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi at whose rally in Kolkata the 70-year-old joined the BJP, ending days and weeks of hypothesis.
“He has been very open to me. Prime Minister was with me for quarter-hour. And he informed me, ‘Yeh sarkar sabki sarkar hogi‘. Which means we’re going to decide all people the identical manner,” Mr Chakraborty stated.
Firmly refusing to hazard a guess about his position if the BJP involves energy, he stated, “I’m positively now campaigning. Prime Minister informed me to begin on the twelfth. And subsequent, wait and see. I’m a person of protocol. I’ve bought leaders, we should respect them.”
Requested about his ideas on the state of Bengal, he stated, “It is in a multitude now. Bengal was an instance for everybody. Right now, I really feel it isn’t there. Someplace, we have now gone haywire. And we should come collectively to see that we get again these issues. And for that, we’d like a change. An actual change. Change for the folks.”
So what precisely does he need to change? “Every part,” the actor stated, using a Bengali expression so as to add, “Every part might be turned on its head in six months.”
Nevertheless, in an election marketing campaign outlined by coarse language and shrillness, Mr Chakraborty refused to take pictures at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
“I’m sorry. I’m not right here to… I’ve by no means completed it in my life. I by no means converse unhealthy, I’ll by no means converse unhealthy. I cannot criticise. That you just can not take from me,” he stated, when requested about his message for her.
The actor additionally defined his previous allegiances, with the Left after which Ms Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress and even the Congress at instances.
“I’m not blaming anybody. I feel my determination was not proper. I used to be a fan of Jyoti Basu as a result of he at all times (labored) for the folks. I’ve campaigned for Pranab Mukherjee. I’ve campaigned for Vilasrao Deshmukh. However I’ve by no means been political. That is why I say, ‘Do not put me in a jar’,” he stated.
One of Bengal’s most beloved actors, Mithun Chakraborty was despatched to the Rajya Sabha by the Trinamool in 2014 however give up the social gathering inside two years after he was named within the Saradha chit fund case, pleading poor well being.
There had been hypothesis the actor might be a part of BJP and grow to be its face for Chief Minister within the Bengal Meeting election beginning later this month ever since Mohan Bhagwat, chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh – the BJP’s ideological mentor – visited him at his bungalow in Mumbai on 16 February.
Whether or not he’s or not, the actor is among the many necessary faces the BJP will pitch in its marketing campaign to oust Mamata Banerjee in Bengal.
