Babul Supriyo, 2-Time MP, Joins Assembly Poll Fight In BJP's Mission Bengal
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Babul Supriyo will contest from Tollygunge in Kolkata, the heart of the Bengal film industry, and will take on Arup Biswas, a state minister who is close to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Union Minister Babul Supriyo, a two-time MP from Asansol, has been drafted by the BJP as it stakes its most popular Bengal faces in this election. The 50-year-old junior environment minister will contest from Tollygunge in Kolkata, the heart of the Bengal film industry, and will take on Arup Biswas, a state minister who is close to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Since he joined politics in 2014 and won an unlikely victory in Asansol against a formidable Trinamool Congress opponent, Mr Supriyo has been in the news for his relentless criticism of the Mamata Banerjee government in the state. Mr Supriyo, a singer, defeated Trinamool's Dola Sen by 60,000 votes in the 2014 Lok Sabha election. In 2019, he pulled off a surprise victory against popular actress Moon Moon Sen, who was dubbed the "giant killer" in 2014 after she defeated a nine-time Left lawmaker in Bankura.
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