Bollywood actor Govinda on Thursday officially joined Shiv Sena in presence of Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde in Mumbai ahead of the Lok Sabha elections 2024.
Earlier, there had been speculations that CM Eknath Shinde could have possibly convinced former MP Govinda to be Shiv Sena’s candidate from Mumbai North West against the Uddhav Thackeray Sena’s Amol Kirtikar.
In 2004, Govinda had broken the BJP`s five-term winning streak in Mumbai North. During his political tenure, the famous `Virar ka Chokra` invited more criticism than accolades. Fed up, he quit politics before his five-year term ended. He has stayed away from politics since then. Govinda is reported to have met CM Shinde recently and that meeting triggered the talks of his comeback to the business of politics.
In the neighbouring Mumbai North Central constituency, a staunch critic of the Modi government Swara Bhaskar`s name was being taken, among others such as senior actor and former MP Raj Babbar, as candidates where BJP`s Poonam Mahajan is reigning since 2014. Veteran actor-politician the late Sunil Dutt and his younger daughter Priya had together won several terms here as Congress nominees. Priya hasn’t staked her claim to the nomination. Her recent social media post suggested that she was on a vacation with her family. She also denied rumours that she had made up her mind to quit the Congress to join the Shinde Sena.
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