Watch: Why Mithun Chakraborty Says, “Do not Name Me A BJP Chief”

Kolkata:

Actor Mithun Chakraborty, who joined the BJP on Sunday, stated he does now not fancy the name of a “chief”, can’t disclose whether or not he’s going to transform Leader Minister, however can promise that if the party involves energy in West Bengal, “the whole thing might be grew to become on its head in six months”.

“It’s not that i am a pacesetter. Do not name me a BJP chief. I do not need the qualities to be a pacesetter. I best say I’ve a pacesetter, I’ve spoken to him,” he advised TTN NEWS, relating to Top Minister Narendra Modi at whose rally in Kolkata the 70-year-old joined the BJP, finishing days and weeks of hypothesis.

“He has been very open to me. Top Minister was once with me for 15 mins. And he advised me, ‘Yeh sarkar sabki sarkar hogi‘. That suggests we’re going to pass judgement on everyone the similar manner,” Mr Chakraborty stated.

Firmly refusing to danger a bet about his function if the BJP involves energy, he stated, “I’m surely now campaigning. Top Minister advised me to begin at the 12th. And subsequent, wait and notice. I’m a person of protocol. I’ve were given leaders, we will have to admire them.”

Requested about his ideas at the state of Bengal, he stated, “It is in a multitude now. Bengal was once an instance for everybody. Lately, I think it isn’t there. Someplace, we’ve got long past haywire. And we will have to come in combination to look that we get again the ones issues. And for that, we’d like a metamorphosis. An actual alternate. Exchange for the folk.”

So what precisely does he need to alternate? “The whole lot,” the actor stated, using a Bengali expression so as to add, “The whole lot might be grew to become on its head in six months.”

On the other hand, in an election marketing campaign outlined by means of coarse language and shrillness, Mr Chakraborty refused to take pictures at West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee.

“I’m sorry. It’s not that i am right here to… I’ve by no means carried out it in my existence. I by no means talk dangerous, I will be able to by no means talk dangerous. I will be able to now not criticise. That you can’t 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 or even the Congress now and then.

“It’s not that i am blaming any person. I believe my resolution was once now not proper. I used to be partial to Jyoti Basu as a result of he at all times (labored) for the folk. 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 among Bengal’s maximum cherished actors, Mithun Chakraborty was once despatched to the Rajya Sabha by means of the Trinamool in 2014 however surrender the party inside two years after he was once named within the Saradha chit fund case, pleading deficient well being.

There have been hypothesis the actor would possibly sign up for BJP and transform its face for Leader Minister within the Bengal Meeting election beginning later this month ever since Mohan Bhagwat, leader 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 now not, the actor is one of the essential faces the BJP will pitch in its marketing campaign to oust Mamata Banerjee in Bengal.