States »EasPosted at: Apr 29 2021 11:41AM

'Never voted so peacefully': Mithun Chakraborty after voting in Kolkata

Kolkata, Apr 29 (UNI) Actor-turned-politician Mithun Chakraborty on

Thursday said that he had never witnessed such peaceful polling in his lifetime, after casting his vote in north Kolkata

The septuagenarian Bollywood idol, who joined the BJP at Prime

Minister Narednra Modi's rally at Brigade Parade Ground

on March 7, is the new voter at the Cossipore-Belgachia assembly

constituency in north Kolkata. He cast his vote

at the 247 booth, the area where the actor's cousin resides. His new

voter card was transferred here early March.

Mithun Chakraborty was super hit during his campaign for a month from

March 25, next to

PM Narendra Modi and Union Home minister Amit Shah, in drawing people

to the BJP rallies.

Barring few rallies he addressed, Mithun Chakraborty restricted

himself in roadshows mainly

across West Bengal.

"I had never voted so peacefully ever before. I must congratulate all

the security personnel," Mithun Chakraborty said while the security personnel were busy in

keeping away the onlookers.

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