BJP produces ‘birth certificate’ of Bangladeshi actress who joined party

Tribune News Service
Kolkata, June 6

The BJP on Thursday produced a document which is purported to be the “birth certificate” of popular Bangladeshi actress Anju Ghosh of the “Beder Meye Josna” movie fame, who joined the party on Wednesday.  

Anju Ghosh was welcomed to the BJP by party’s state president Dilip Ghosh after a press conference at the BJP office here yesterday.

“We have the original Beder Meye Josna now,” Ghosh said.

The use of the word “original” by Ghosh was a throwback to the past when West Bengal Panchayat Minister Subrata Mukhrerjee, then a Congress leader, called Mamata Banerjee “Beder Meye Josna” to underscore her rambunctious ways.

Though a smash hit among the masses, “Beder Meye Josna”, the 1991 remake of a Bangladeshi movie of the same name, failed to get the approval of the Bengali “bhadraloks” prompting Subrata to use Ghosh’s character in the film to run down Mamata who was then a struggling opposition leader.

Questions regarding Ghosh’s nationality, whether she is an Indian citizen or holds a Bangladeshi passport, had remained a mystery yesterday as neither Dilip nor Anju was ready to give a straightforward answer.

However, the document produced today said Ghosh is Kolkata-born.

Issued by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation in 2003, the certificate says Anju Ghosh was born to Sudhanya Ghosh and Binapani Ghosh on September 17, 1966 in East End Nursing Home, Kolkata.

“The information has been taken from the original record of birth which is the register…,” says the certificate.