"I really don't know whether she was with the party after the elections. She, however, lost to former state school education minister and Trinamool heavyweight Partha Chatterjee by over 50,000 votes. Srabanti, who was once close to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the Trinamool Congress, joined the BJP ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections in March, and was given the ticket to contest from Behala Paschim. After that, a disillusioned Srabanti decided to keep away from all the activities of the party.
The 34-year-old actor had been maintaining a distance from the saffron party after it failed to unseat Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool-led government from power despite a high-pitched campaign. Reason being their lack of initiative and sincerity to further the cause of Bengal." However, the actor didn't make it clear whether she would join the Trinamool Congress. In a tweet on Thursday the actor wrote "Severing all ties with the BJP, the party for which I fought the last state elections. Kolkata, Nov 11: The exodus continues as Bengali film actor Srabanti Chatterjee, who had joined the BJP with a lot of hype before the Assembly polls, quit the party announcing that it lacks sincerity and initiatives to further the cause of Bengal.