Bengal: Babul Supriyo takes on Aroop Biswas from high-profile Tollygunge constituency

With the fight to form the government in the state getting more intense, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded Babul Supriyo from Tollygunge.

“I have won by a sizable number of votes in the past and I am confident about Tollygunge,” Supriyo said after being drafted for Bengal polls.

The union minister later informed, “After coming here, I came to know that this area is controlled by ‘two brothers’ i.e. Aroop Biswas and Swaroop Biswas. This happens even in today’s era, I do not believe it.”

Supriyo while alleging that Tollygunge has become an arena of corruption, he also declared that his mission is to bring in a uniform code, like there is in Mumbai, in the film industry.

In response to TMC’s ‘Khela Hobe’ (the game is on) poll slogan, Supriyo commented, "We don’t want to play. What have they played right? They have murdered democracy.”

A singer-turned-politician, Supriyo defeated TMC candidate 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 CPI-M lawmaker Basudeb Acharia in Bankura.

After his election win in 2014, Supriyo was inducted into the Narendra Modi government as the Union Minister of State, Ministry of Urban Development; and Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation.

On the other hand, Aroop Biswas is the present Minister for North Bengal Development in the state, earlier was elected from the Tollygunge in 2006, 2011, and 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.

Some of the graffiti also has catchy lines, like "Jokhon daki tokhon payi, Aroop da ke abar chai” (Whenever we call Arup Biswas is accessible).

Biswas was quoted saying, "The BJP and Bengali culture are anti-thesis of each other. Both can never go together. Those joining the BJP will soon realise this and regret their decision,"