“I will contest from wherever Banerjee asks me to,” she said.

In the evening, Roy and Tapas Paul visited the Trinamool chief’s residence. “I am ready to contest the polls if Banerjee wants me to,” said Paul.

Both Roy and Kabir Sumon were among the celebrities, who participated in the agitation in Nandigram and Singur. Roy took the stage when Banerjee was staging an indefinite dharna near the Tata Motors small car factory site in Singur.

Paul was elected as a member of the Assembly in 2001and 2006 from Alipore. Madhavi Mukherjee, another renowned Bengali film actress of yesteryears, contested on a Trinamool ticket against Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee from Jadavpur in 2001. She, however, lost. Nayana Das, another Bengali actress contested Assembly elections from Taltolla under the Trinamool banner in 2001 and won.