Kolkata: Asian Games gold medalist Pinki Pramanik on Thursday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in Kolkata.
“From today onwards Pinki is part of the BJP family,” said party president in Bengal Dilip Ghosh after handing her the flag of BJP.
She represented India in the Asian Games and Commonwealth Games and had bagged gold and silver in track and field division.
Arjuna awardee Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, who had represented the CPI-M in the 14th Lok Sabha, had joined the BJP earlier this year.
