Kolkata: BJP's Lok Sabha candidate from Jadavpur, Anupam Hazra accompanied by WWE wrestler the Great Khali, during an election campaign for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls, in Kolkata, on April 26, 2019. (Photo: Kuntal Chakrabarty/IANS)
Former WWE wrestler Dalip Singh Rana, known as 'The Great Khali', on Friday attended the nomination filing of BJP's Jadavpur candidate Anupam Hazra.
Hazra, who was expelled from the Trinamool Congress for anti-party activities in January, is up against TMC's filmstar candidate Mimi Chakraborty and CPI(M)'s Bikash Bhattacharya. People came out in droves to see India's first world heavyweight wrestling champion in WWE.
"We are old friends," Hazra said about Khali, who said the BJP candidate was a like a "brother" to him. Hazra also said the presence of Khali is not an attempt to "intimidate" the ruling Trinamool Congress, of which he was an MP from the Bolpur constituency.
