Samajwadi Party (SP) MP Jaya Bachchan arrived in Kolkata on Monday to campaign for the Trinamool Congress in the state. She held a press conference at Trinamool Bhawan in Kolkata, and praised Mamata Banerjee for the way she was fighting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).<\/p>\n
The actor turned politician, who is also wife of superstar Amitabh Bachchan, will be in the state from April 5 to 8 and campaign for various Trinamool candidates.<\/p>\n
Reacting to Jaya Bachchan campaigning for the Trinamool, Union minister and BJP candidate from Tollygunge, Babul Supriyo said that she might speak against the BJP but never anything against him. \u201cI welcome her to West Bengal. She knows me very well, and though she may speak against the BJP, \u00a0she will never say anything against me,\u201d Supriyo is reported to have said. He is contesting from the Tollygunge constituency against Trinamool\u2019s Aroop Biswas, where Jaya Bachchan is campaigning for the latter.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, BJP\u2019s Bengal chief Dilip Ghosh said that Jaya Bachchan \u201cused to be popular in the past, but has no connect with Bengal and its issues of today\u201d. Jaya Bachchan — a Bengali who has acted in various Bengali films — is also being projected by the Trinamool as a \u201cBanglar meye<\/em>\u201d (a girl from Bengal), the slogan being party of the party\u2019s election campaign showing Mamata Banerjee and various other women who are fighting the BJP.<\/p>\n Recently, the Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee wrote a letter to opposition leaders including Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav \u201cfor a united and effective struggle against the BJP\u2019s attacks on democracy and Constitution\u201d, adding that a meeting should be held after the Assembly elections to \u201cdeliberate the issues and chart out a plan of action\u201d.<\/p>\n The letter was sent to opposition leaders such as Congress president Sonia Gandhi, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik, Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Jagan Mohan Reddy, DMK leader MK Stalin, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav, CPI (ML) leader Dipankar Bhattacharya, National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti.<\/p>\n At the press conference today, Jaya Bachchan thanked Akhilesh Yadav for \u201csending me here\u201d in support of the Trinamool Congress in its fight against BJP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Samajwadi Party (SP) MP Jaya Bachchan arrived in Kolkata on Monday to campaign for the Trinamool Congress in the state. She held a press conference at Trinamool Bhawan in Kolkata, and praised Mamata Banerjee for the way she was fighting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The actor turned politician, who is also wife of superstar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":14672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[185,1318,387,134,57,156,186,583,46],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal","8":"tag-akhilesh-yadav","9":"tag-aroop-biswas","10":"tag-assembly-elections-2021","11":"tag-babul-supriyo","12":"tag-bjp","13":"tag-dilip-ghosh","14":"tag-samajwadi-party","15":"tag-top-story","16":"tag-trinamool-congress"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14671"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=14671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}