Actor Srabanti Chatterjee quits BJP, cites lack of initiative and sincerity

KOLKATA: Barely seven months after joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), actor Srabanti Chatterjee announced severing all ties with the saffron party on Thursday.

She expressed her displeasure with the party's functioning in Bengal and stated that the saffron party's "lack of initiative and sincerity" towards the welfare of the state has prompted her to take such a decision.

"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," Srabanti wrote on her Twitter handle.

Chatterjee joined the BJP in March, just ahead of the Bengal Assembly elections, at a time when many celebrities had joined the BJP. She had joined the party in the presence of the then-BJP Bengal president Dilip Ghosh and party's state election in-charge Kailash Vijayvargiya.