The BJP is banking on the popularity of some of Bhojpuri film industry’s biggest stars to see it through a clutch of Lok Sabha seats in eastern Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
The saffron outfit is tapping film stars Ravi Kishan, singer-actor Dinesh Lal Yadav alias ‘Nirahua’ and Pawan Singh and they are expected to contest elections from seats in eastern UP and West Bengal, which have Bhojpuri voters, party insiders said.
Singh is already in the BJP, while Yadav joined the party on Wednesday in Lucknow in the presence of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.