Mithun Chakraborty is primarily known for his work in the Bollywood film industry, but he has also acted in Bengali, Odia, Bhojpuri, Telugu, and Punjabi films.
Trinamool Congress Spokesman Kunal Ghosh, without directly naming anyone, has ridiculed the Padma Bhushan award for superstar Mithun Chakraborty. Ghosh said that the Padma Bhushan award is not for his acting talent but as the prize for shifting political camp. To subscribe please click tau.id/2iy6f and access our live channel.
The politician stated as, “The Padma Bhushan award is not any recognition of his acting talent. In that case the award could have been conferred any time after 2014. Actually it is an award for his dishonesty towards Trinamool Congress and subsequent slandering of the party.”
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However, the state BJP president in West Bengal and the party Lok Sabha member Sukanta Majumdar referred to the event of Ghosh spending years behind the bars because of his alleged involvement in the multi-crore Saradha chit fund scam.
Majumdar replied, “A three-time national award winning legendary actor has now been conferred the Padma Bhushan. Mithun Chakraborty too had spent his early life in North Kolkata. Now the people of north Kolkata will give a fitting reply to Ghosh for such slanderous comments.”
Chakraborty, an erstwhile Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member joined BJP in Kolkata before the 2021 West Bengal assembly polls. Since then he had been a point of attack for several Trinamool Congress leaders.
