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From Hema Malini to Rakhi Sawant: Star studded cast for real life Rajniti

FP Archives • April 1, 2014, 12:58:02 IST
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With their films and songs they tried to win your heart. Now they want to win your vote. Clearly not content with just buying IPL franchises and bidding on international cricketers, our film and television stars are going to the polls. Not that there is much of a difference between the two, given the scams and amounts of money involved. But they do lend a touch of much needed glamour and colour to the campaign trail. With rose petals, bling and pretty faces, here are the celebrities who are making a go of the Lok Sabha elections this time around.

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From Hema Malini to Rakhi Sawant: Star studded cast for real life Rajniti

  [caption id=“attachment_1460069” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] ![PTI Images](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Bollywood_Lok-Sabha-Elections-2014.jpg) From Hema Malini to Rakhi Sawant: Star studded cast for real life Rajniti. PTI Images[/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_1460011” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] ![Kirron Kher. BJP candidate from Chandigarh in the parliamentary elections 2014. PTI](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Kirron-Kher.jpg) Kirron Kher may be best known for her performance in plays and films like Dostana, but now she wants to ride the Modi wave too. Kher is the BJP candidate from Chandigarh: PTI[/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_1460013” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] ![Rakhi Sawant contesting elections as an independent candidate from Mumbai North-West constituency. PTI](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Rakhi-Sawant.jpg) Everyone’s favourite reality star Rakhi Sawant really wants your vote. She is the sole candidate for the newly formed ‘Rashtriya Aam Party’, which isn’t despite what it sounds like, a party for mangoes: PTI[/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_1460015” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] ![Gul Panag is AAP candidate from Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat. PTI](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Gul-Panag.jpg) Twitter celeb and former Miss India Gul Panag has decided to take her opinions on the road and try to effect some real change, via the Aam Aadmi Party: PTI[/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_1460181” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] ![Bappi Lahiri is making his electoral debut as the BJP candidate from Sreerampore constituency in Hooghly district of Kolkata. AFP](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/bappi-lahiri_AFP.jpg) Bling king Bappi Lahiri plans to woo voters (or blind them) for the BJP in the Hooghly district of Kolkata. AFP[/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_1460025” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] ![Hema Malini is contesting the Lok Sabha elections from Mathura. PTI](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Hema-Malini.jpg) ‘Dream Girl’ Hema Malini is dreaming that her loyal fans in Mathura will give her their votes this time. She is contesting for the BJP: PTI[/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_1460029” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] ![Kamaal Rashid Khan to contest elections as SP candidate. IBNLive](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Kamaal-R-Khan.jpg) Kamaal Rashid Khan, best known becoming the first contestant to be prematurely kicked out from the Bigg Boss house because of his violent behaviour towards other house mates is contesting on a SP ticket, which is ironically known for its ‘goonda’ behaviour: IBN live[/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_1460035” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] ![Mahesh Manjrekar will be contesting the Lok Sabha elections from Mumbai North-West as a Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) candidate. IBNLive](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Mahesh-Manjrekar.jpg) Actor, director and producer Mahesh Manjrekar will be contesting the Lok Sabha elections from Mumbai North-West as a Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) candidate. He was once questioned for allegedly having a telephonic conversation with a Mumbai gangster.  IBNLive[/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_1460037” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] ![Manoj Tiwari is representing BJP in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from North-east delhi seat. IBNLive](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Manoj-Tiwari.jpg) Bhojpuri theatre star Manoj Tiwari is representing the BJP from the North-east Delhi seat. Tiwari was among the first celebrities to make an appearance in support of Ramdev’s 2011 hunger strike at the Ramlila Ground. He sang various patriotic songs to the gathered protestors and claimed that he had ceased filming for a month in order to join the protest. He was also involved in protests surrounding the arrest of Anna Hazare: IBNlive[/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_1460041” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] ![Moon Moon Senis a Trinamool Congress candidate from Bankura Lok Sabha seat. IBNLive](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Moon-Moon-Sen.jpg) Moon Moon Sen is contesting as a Trinamool Congress candidate from the Bankura Lok Sabha seat. Recently her housing crisis for the constituency was resolved when the TMC found her a 60-year-old bungalow with old world charm. “Two air conditioners will be installed in the two bedrooms, either tonight or tomorrow,” the bungalow’s lucky owner Sujit Kumar Dutta told The Telegraph: CNN-IBN[/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_1460045” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] ![Nagma is Congress candidate from Meerut seat. IBNLive](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Nagma.jpg) Actress Nagma, who was also linked to former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly at one time, is Congress candidate from Meerut seat. Ganguly meanwhile was reportedly wooed by the BJP to stand from West Bengal: IBNLive[/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_1460047” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] ![Paresh Rawal is the BJP candidate for the east Ahmedabad constituency in Gujarat. IBNLive](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Paresh-Rawal.jpg) Character actor Paresh Rawal has very seriously gotten into the role of neta as the BJP candidate for the east Ahmedabad constituency in Gujarat. IBNLive[/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_1460051” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] ![Raj Babbar is Congress nominee from Ghaziabad. PTI](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Raj-Babbar.jpg) Apart from being a well known Hindi and Punjabi film actor, Raj Babbar was with the Samajwadi Party before becoming the Congress nominee from Ghaziabad. He created controversy in 2013, by stating that Rs.12 was sufficient to get a full meal for a common man in Mumbai, which drew severe criticism: PTI[/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_1460055” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] ![Ravi Kishan Shukla is contesting the Lok Sabha elections from Jaunpur constituency in Uttar Pradesh. IBNLive](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Ravi-Kishan-Shukla.jpg) Top Bhojpuri actor Ravi Kishan Shukla is contesting from the Jaunpur constituency in Uttar Pradesh on a Congress ticket: IBNLive[/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_1460057” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] ![Shatrughan Sinha is BJP candidate from Patna Sahib. IBNLive](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Shatrughan-Sinha.jpg) Shatrughan Sinha, whose first acting opportunity was playing a Pakistani military officer in Dev Anand’s Prem Pujari is the BJP candidate from Patna Sahib: IBNLive[/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_1460059” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] ![Vinod Khanna is now BJP candidate from Gurdaspur. PTI](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Vinod-Khanna.jpg) Vinod Khanna was once the face of masculinity in a Cinthol ad and is the BJP candidate from Gurdaspur. PTI[/caption]

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