Bengali TV actor Rupa Bhattacharjee quits BJP, hits out at senior party leaders on FB

TV actor Rupa Bhattacharjee has become the latest Bengali celebrity to resign from the BJP. She also hit out at senior party leaders in a series of open letters on Facebook after her resignation.

TV actor Rupa Bhattacharjee became the latest Bengali celebrity to leave the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Soon after leaving the party, she attacked several senior BJP leaders of West Bengal in a series of Facebook posts. Speaking to India Today, Rupa Bhattacharjee, who has been a social activist apart from being an actress, stated that the BJP's defeat in the 2021 West Bengal Assembly polls was not the reason behind her resignation. "It was the humiliation I faced," she said.