“While we have fielded good party officials at several seats, we have also gone for the celebrity touch,” he said about the six such candidates out of 42 seats in the state.
“We have to show them that ‘Hum kisise kum nahin' (we are not lesser than anyone),” he said in a lighter vein.
A political rookie coming from a CPI(M) family in Keshpur village, Dev said, “I could not say no to Didi” when the 32-year old actor was asked why he chose to join the political bandwagon so early in his career.
