Polls: Manipur film star RK Somendro Singh joins BJP

Ruling BJP in Manipur gets celluloid power as Manipuri film star RK Somendro Singh, popular as Kaiku along with 40 of his co-stars and colleagues from the film fraternity joined BJP.

Manipur Chief Minister, N Biren Singh welcomed RK Somendro Singh (Kaiku) and his friends to the BJP at a simple Party Joining Programme attended by Sambit Patra Manipur in-charge, State BJP President A. Sharda Devi and party workers.

Significantly, RK Somendro Singh had contested for the Inner Manipur Lok Sabha Seat in 2019 as an independent candidate and lost. Before the Lok Sabha polls, he was the vice president of Lok Janshakti Party, Manipur unit.