Overview
- Parno Mitra formally re-entered the Trinamool Congress on December 26 at the party’s Kolkata headquarters, calling her 2019 move to the BJP a mistake.
- Her return adds to a roster of Tollywood personalities in TMC as the party expands its ranks ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections.
- She contested Baranagar for the BJP in 2021 and lost to TMC’s Tapas Roy before largely stepping back from politics.
- Roy later left the Trinamool for the BJP in early 2024, underscoring shifting loyalties around the Baranagar seat.
- BJP leader and actor Rudranil Ghosh downplayed the development, saying it would neither benefit TMC nor harm the BJP.