"Now Bengali Babu" Shatrughan Sinha vs "Ghar Ki Beti" In Asansol Bypoll
NDTV
The Trinamool candidate, actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha, faces the BJP's Agnimitra Paul, a designer-turned-MLA in the election to be held on Tuesday.
One of Bengal's largest cities, Asansol, will vote for its MP in Lok Sabha bypolls next week and the main rivals are an "outsider" and a candidate who calls herself the "daughter" of the city.
The Trinamool candidate, actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha, faces the BJP's Agnimitra Paul, a designer-turned-MLA in the election to be held on Tuesday.
The Asansol parliamentary seat fell vacant after Babul Supriyo quit as a BJP MP last year and switched to the Trinamool Congress, pledging allegiance to Mamata Banerjee.
The Trinamool has never won the Asansol seat before but hopes that Shatrughan Sinha, the flamboyant former movie star who quit the BJP in 2019, will make an impact and reel in the non-Bengali population in the constituency.
