With actor-politician Mithun Chakraborty quitting TMC to join rival camp BJP, an executive coach cautions about factors to keep in mind when you jump ship in the corporate world to join the competitor

When Bengal’s beloved Mithun da, or actor-politician Mithun Chakraborty likened himself to a cobra last Sunday, he wasn’t kidding. The Disco King had, after all, slithered his way from the extreme Left in his youth to a Rajya Sabha membership on an All India Trinamool Congress ticket; his final chhobol (Bengali, for snakebite) was joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the upcoming West Bengal state election