New Delhi: The Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh are around the corner and political parties are leaving no stone unturned when it comes to wooing the voters.
Rajya Sabha member and Bollywood star Hema Malini, who is campaigning for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), addressed several election meetings in Kanpur on Saturday. She appealed to the electorate to vote for right candidates.
MP from Gurdaspur and yesteryear actor Vinod Khanna, MP from Bikaner Dharmendra, Shatrughan Sinha and the popular Tulsi — Smiriti Irani — have also been roped in to campaign for the elections to the 403-seat UP Assembly.
However, Mayawati led Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is not part of the tinsel town’s campaign. The BSP chief like always will be the lone crusader of her party with support from party's general secretary Satish Chandra Mishra.
The ruling Samajwadi Party has already launched a blitzkrieg with party MPs Jaya Bachchan and Jaya Prada virtually camping in Bharthana, one of two seats in UP from where Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav is contesting this time.
The Congress, on its part, is trying to bring in Shahrukh Khan, party MP Govinda, Celina Jaitely, Nagma, Asrani, Poonam Dhillon, Zeenat Aman and a host of other TV stars into the campaigning bandwagon.
With Bollywood connections of Amar Singh not a secret, the SP could well take a lead in bringing stars during the electioneering. Earlier, Amitabh Bachchan's public service message against polio – titled Do Boond Jeewan Ki - had become the centre of a roaring controversy.
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