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Post by MrB on Mar 27, 2014 12:56:25 GMT
They say that people get the government they deserve. From ApunKaChoice: OMG! Rakhi Sawant enters politics, to fight LS polls from MumbaiYes, you read that right. The very outspoken and intrepid Rakhi Sawant has taken a plunge into politics. The Lok Sabha election in Mumbai North-West constituency will get a dose of glamour with the entry of Bollywood item girl Rakhi Sawant as an Independent candidate. "I have been virtually mobbed by people demanding that I should fight the election, so here I am," Sawant told media persons here Wednesday. She will lock horns with Congress's former union minister and party general secretary Gurudas Kamat and Shiv Sena's Gajanan Kirtikar. Others in the fray are Bollywood actor-director Mahesh Manjrekar of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, producer-actor Kamaal R. Khan of the Samajwadi Party and Mayank Gandhi of the Aam Aadmi Party. Rakhi Sawant had recently called on the Bharatiya Janata Party's top leadership in New Delhi and expressed her admiration for its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi. "I was offered a BJP ticket from Srirampur in West Bengal. But I am from Mumbai and known Hindi and Marathi. I don't know the local language of West Bengal, so why should I stand from there?" she said. "Please give me one chance and see what I can do," the actress urged. Sawant said she was leaving the film industry for the cause of the people and would take up cudgels for women for dignity and respect in society. Sawant was attired in a green outfit and covered her head with a scarf as she posed for media persons. |
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Post by James on Mar 31, 2014 2:34:14 GMT
I wonder if she's a serious candidate? Clearly she thinks she is, or she wouldn't be doing it. I haven't heard much about her in the movies for a long time, nor anything about her reality shows. I suppose her career was over?
ETA: Just found the following. The symbol of her party and the reason for it are hilarious.  Looks like she's up against some serious candidates. Rakhi Sawant launches party, wants 'green chilli'MUMBAI: Television entertainer Rakhi Sawant on Friday bid farewell to the industry and launched her political career by establishing a new party called Rashtriya Aam Party ( RAAP). She will file her nomination for the Lok Sabha election from Mumbai Northwest on Saturday, hoping to receive the green chilli symbol that "resembles her persona". Gaily displaying green chilli-shaped earrings and a bracelet, Sawant the party's only candidate for now, said, "I am neither an orphan politician nor an Independent. Now I have my own party. I am the vice-president." She defended the party's choice of name, which is a take-off on the Aam Aadmi Party, saying the two had nothing in common. "I will release a proper manifesto after a few days but I want to serve the poor and uplift the status of women. I will give my last drop of blood to serve the 'dukhi janata' and provide an alternative to those who are fed up with corruption," she said at a press conference in Oshiwara Friday. The dramatic launch of the new outfit days before the general election draws doubts about the backing of a bigger force. RAAP's office bearers and fundraisers are local businessmen from Oshiwara, including Kishanlal Hans, chairman of the Heera Panna Mall, where the press conference was organized. Others on the dais were property dealer Shriprakash Dubey and some restaurateurs. Their wives make up the party's women's wing. "We have dabbled in politics by helping bigger parties before, but the problem is that one can invest a lifetime of work and not receive a nomination even for the assembly election," Dubey told TOI. Mumbai Northwest spans the film-television neighbourhoods of Andheri, Goregaon and Dindoshi. Sitting Congress MP Gurudas Kamat is running neck and neck with the Shiv Sena-BJP combine's Gajanan Kirtikar. AAP has fielded Mayank Gandhi, the MNS has put up actor-director Mahesh Manjrekar, while entertainer Kamaal R Khan is the Samajwadi Party candidate. |
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Post by dancelover on Apr 1, 2014 17:09:37 GMT
Why shouldn't she be serious? Maybe she will be the best candidate. Maybe she will win. And maybe she will bring attention to some things that are Important, but that Indians had previously overlooked. Sockituem, Rakhi! You go, Jawani! Dancelover I wonder if she's a serious candidate? Clearly she thinks she is, or she wouldn't be doing it. I haven't heard much about her in the movies for a long time, nor anything about her reality shows. I suppose her career was over?
ETA: Just found the following. The symbol of her party and the reason for it are hilarious. Looks like she's up against some serious candidates. Rakhi Sawant launches party, wants 'green chilli'MUMBAI: Television entertainer Rakhi Sawant on Friday bid farewell to the industry and launched her political career by establishing a new party called Rashtriya Aam Party ( RAAP). She will file her nomination for the Lok Sabha election from Mumbai Northwest on Saturday, hoping to receive the green chilli symbol that "resembles her persona". Gaily displaying green chilli-shaped earrings and a bracelet, Sawant the party's only candidate for now, said, "I am neither an orphan politician nor an Independent. Now I have my own party. I am the vice-president." She defended the party's choice of name, which is a take-off on the Aam Aadmi Party, saying the two had nothing in common. "I will release a proper manifesto after a few days but I want to serve the poor and uplift the status of women. I will give my last drop of blood to serve the 'dukhi janata' and provide an alternative to those who are fed up with corruption," she said at a press conference in Oshiwara Friday. The dramatic launch of the new outfit days before the general election draws doubts about the backing of a bigger force. RAAP's office bearers and fundraisers are local businessmen from Oshiwara, including Kishanlal Hans, chairman of the Heera Panna Mall, where the press conference was organized. Others on the dais were property dealer Shriprakash Dubey and some restaurateurs. Their wives make up the party's women's wing. "We have dabbled in politics by helping bigger parties before, but the problem is that one can invest a lifetime of work and not receive a nomination even for the assembly election," Dubey told TOI. Mumbai Northwest spans the film-television neighbourhoods of Andheri, Goregaon and Dindoshi. Sitting Congress MP Gurudas Kamat is running neck and neck with the Shiv Sena-BJP combine's Gajanan Kirtikar. AAP has fielded Mayank Gandhi, the MNS has put up actor-director Mahesh Manjrekar, while entertainer Kamaal R Khan is the Samajwadi Party candidate. |
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Post by Prem Rogue on Apr 1, 2014 20:32:41 GMT
I wonder if she's a serious candidate? Clearly she thinks she is, or she wouldn't be doing it. I haven't heard much about her in the movies for a long time, nor anything about her reality shows. I suppose her career was over? Is that the showbiz career trajectory? Films to reality shows to politics?  |
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Post by MrB on Apr 2, 2014 6:58:09 GMT
Is that the showbiz career trajectory? Films to reality shows to politics? Perhaps each requires successively greater levels of acting ability. |
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Post by bluejasmine on Apr 17, 2014 19:47:05 GMT
God help India!
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Post by knifebollywood on May 7, 2017 9:32:00 GMT
Still way better than Kejriwal! Hahah What is going on with that dude right now! He has totally been exposed by Kapil Mishra's Twitter |
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Looks like she's up against some serious candidates.
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