Bengali actor Boney Sengupta quits BJP, says party failed to keep promises

Bengali actor Boney Sengupta, who joined the BJP ahead of the assembly elections last year, on Monday said he is quitting the saffron party as it has failed to fulfill the promises of development of the state and the film industry. Sengupta kept his distance from the party after failing to come to power in the state, despite a high-profile campaign.

“It is informed that my association with Bharatiya Janata Party has shifted to second place from today. The party has failed to fulfill the commitments as promised and I do not see any form of development,” he said. Promised for. Bengal or the Bengali film industry (sic),” he tweeted. Sengupta later told reporters that the BJP leaders had not been in touch with him since the assembly election results on May 2, 2021.

The West Bengal BJP unit highlighted the development and said that it would hardly affect the party. It is their decision, so what can we say? And regarding our promises, we did not come to power in West Bengal. Therefore, we do not have the executive power to do anything for the development of the Bengali film industry,” BJP state spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya said.