Chennai: Senior vice-president of Aditya Birla Group Ranjan Banerjee joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kolkata.

Banerjee thanked BJP for giving him the opportunity to serve the people of the state.

“I thank BJP for giving me this opportunity to serve the people of the state. We need to bring industries here so that people can get employment,” Ranjan said.

“The whole environment of West Bengal needs to be changed, so that industries itself come here, I want to see West Bengal as number one state, will do whatever it takes, now it is time to do real work,” he added.

The former employee of the corporate group company said he will encourage industries to set up their units in the state to create jobs.

The development took place ahead of Bengal Assembly Elections this year.