Babul Supriyo, 2-Time MP, Joins Assembly Poll Fight In BJP's Mission Bengal

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.