Lok Sabha elections 2019: Hema Malini files nomination papers from Mathura
Anuja Jaiswal | TNN | Mar 25, 2019, 20:51 IST
Hema Malini on Monday filed her nomination papers for re-contesting elections from the constituency and said t... Read MoreAGRA: Actor turned politician and sitting Member of Parliament from Mathura, Hema Malini, on Monday filed her nomination papers for re-contesting elections from the constituency and said that this was her last election battle.
Accompanied by UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath, Hema earlier performed prayers at the Banke-Bihari temple in Vrindavan.
Talking to media after filing the nomination, Hema, said, “this is my last election and I will not contest next time”. She said that many youngsters are there and they will take over and do the work. “I don’t want to be the hindrance in their oath and I would be with them like they are with me,” she said.
She added that she is seeking the second term for completing the works that she had started. This election will be a referendum, she said.
“I will work hard and come back again to bring development to the area,” she said, adding that she is thankful to Narendra Modi and Amit Shah for choosing her again.
On being asked about the SP-BSP-RLD alliance, Hema said that she has done her work with full dedication and hoped that people would back her up for it. She said that she is confident of her victory.
Hema Malini would be contesting her second elections against Congress’s Mahesh Pathak, who is an industrialist and the combined candidate of the SP-BSP-RLD alliance, Kunwar Narendra Singh, who has earlier lost two assembly elections in Mathura.
Interestingly, Narendra’s elder brother Kunwar Manvendra Singh, has been a Congress MP from Mathura thrice, joined the BJP last evening in the presence of the party’s national president Amit Shah.
Accompanied by UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath, Hema earlier performed prayers at the Banke-Bihari temple in Vrindavan.
Talking to media after filing the nomination, Hema, said, “this is my last election and I will not contest next time”. She said that many youngsters are there and they will take over and do the work. “I don’t want to be the hindrance in their oath and I would be with them like they are with me,” she said.
She added that she is seeking the second term for completing the works that she had started. This election will be a referendum, she said.
“I will work hard and come back again to bring development to the area,” she said, adding that she is thankful to Narendra Modi and Amit Shah for choosing her again.
On being asked about the SP-BSP-RLD alliance, Hema said that she has done her work with full dedication and hoped that people would back her up for it. She said that she is confident of her victory.
Hema Malini would be contesting her second elections against Congress’s Mahesh Pathak, who is an industrialist and the combined candidate of the SP-BSP-RLD alliance, Kunwar Narendra Singh, who has earlier lost two assembly elections in Mathura.
Interestingly, Narendra’s elder brother Kunwar Manvendra Singh, has been a Congress MP from Mathura thrice, joined the BJP last evening in the presence of the party’s national president Amit Shah.
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