- Actor and BJP leader Roopa Ganguly was nominated to the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.
- Ganguly had unsuccessfully contested the West Bengal Assembly elections this year on a BJP ticket. She was nominated by President Pranab Mukherjee to the seat vacated by Navjot Singh Sidhu.
- She came into the limelight in 1988 as Draupadi in the hit television series ‘Mahabharata’.
(With inputs from PTI)
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