Dev remembers his promise after winning the Lok Sabha elections in 2024: Set to plant over eight lakh saplings

Dev registered his victory in Lok Sabha Elections 2024 on June 4. The actor-turned-politician and the two-time Member of Parliament from the All India Trinamool Congress won from the Ghatal constituency in 2014 and 2019. He defeated the BJP's candidate from the Ghatal constituency, Hiranmoy Chattopadhyay, aka Hiran, with a margin of over 1.8 lakh votes.With this win in the 2024 elections, Dev scored a hattrick as a winning MP in Ghatal. Dev says he is extremely grateful to the people of Ghatal, and he is keen on giving back the love he has received.
While campaigning before the elections this year, Dev set an exception for himself by appearing for blood donation camps and donating blood himself instead of only visiting religious places. During those campaign days, Dev had promised that he would plant as many trees as he could in Ghatal. He even had a specific number in mind. Dev promised that he would plant the same number of trees as the number of votes he would receive in the election, despite win or loss. Dev has won with over 8 lakh, 37 thousand votes. After his win, a happy Dev announced that he was going to plant the same number of saplings before this year’s monsoon.

Dev has defeated his former colleague, now BJP-affiliated Hiran, in the Ghatal constituency. During the campaign before the elections, Hiran made several allegations against Dev. Despite this, Dev had not retorted with bitterness or hatred. After his win on June 4, Dev shared a photo on his Instagram story where a deer (known as Hiran in Hindi) and tiger are seen in proximity. With that photo, Dev wrote, “It’s ok. Love is bigger than hatred.” It is evident who that message was directed at.

Dev, who is one of the most popular mega stars of Tollywood, made his acting debut with the 2005 film ‘Agnishapath’, directed by Prabir Nandi, opposite actress Rachana Banerjee. Dev then went on to work on ‘I Love You’. Despite the financial success of the film, he did not take on any other roles for over a year. Dev made a comeback to acting in director Raj Chakraborty's action-romance ‘Challenge’, opposite Subhashree Ganguly. Dev then went on to star in ‘Shedin Dekha Hoyechilo’ opposite Srabanti Chatterjee and in ‘Paglu’ with Koel Mullick. In ‘Romeo’ co-starring Subhashree. Dev has also been part of films like ‘Khokababu’, ‘Chander Pahar’, 'Rangbazz', and ‘Buno Haansh’. In 2015, he appeared in Aparna Sen's action romantic drama film ‘Arshinagar’ opposite Rittika Sen. His performance as a mute gangster in the 2016 action drama film ‘Zulfiqar’ directed by Srijit Mukherji earned him a lot of appreciation. In 2017, Dev founded his own production company, Dev Entertainment Ventures. The first film under Dev’s production house, ‘Champ’ was directed by Raj Chakraborty and had Dev and Rukmini Maitra in the roles. Dev went on to produce films like ‘Cockpit’, ‘Kabir’, ‘Password’, ‘Tonic’, ‘Kishmish’, ‘Projapoti’, ‘Bagha Jatin’, ‘Pradhan’ and star in those films as well.

On the political front, Dev won the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections as a Trinamool Congress candidate from the Ghatal constituency. He gave his maiden speech in the Lok Sabha after two years of winning the elections, in Bengali, regarding the implementation of the Ghatal Master Plan. In 2019 and 2024, he was re-elected from the same constituency.