Ahead of the Lok Sabha election, BJP MP Hema Malini attended ‘Booth Adhyaksh Sammelan’ in her constituency Mathura on April 06. While addressing the audience she thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP National President JP Nadda for giving her the opportunity to contest from Mathura.She said, “I will even better work this time. From 2014 to 2024, in the span of 10 years, I have had the opportunity to do a lot of work in the Mathura area. … This election is very important not just for the country but for the whole world.”
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I don’t want to be Hema Malini, says Jayant Chaudhury after Amit Shah’s invite
Express News Service
LUCKNOW: Stocking a controversy by bringing the name of BJP MP and famous Bollywood actor Hema Malini into poll discourse, Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Jayant Chaudhary claimed that his party leader Yogesh Chaudhury was wooed by Union Home Minister Amit Shah saying he would make him stars like Malini if he joined the party.
Jayant Chaudhary, who had rejected the BJP overtures last week, made the comments while campaigning in Mathura on Tuesday.
Referring to his party leader on stage with him, Chaudhary said, “Yogesh was saying he was told by Shah that, “Yogesh, join us. I will make you like Hema Malini.”
His audience laughed and clapped at his reference to the actor-politician who is a BJP MP from Mathura. “I don’t know what all they keep saying about me. It is not that they have any love or feeling for me. I tell them — What will you get by pleasing me? I don’t want to be Hema Malini. What will you do for the people? What have you done for the families of 700 farmers who died during protests? Why is Teni still a minister?,” the RLD leader said.
RLD is in alliance with Samajwadi Party in the UP. The party has declared 33 RLD candidates across western UP. Jayant, who has not won any election since 2014, is believed to be having some traction among the Jat farmers’ community especially after the unrest over three contentious farm laws which the BJP repealed in November last year.
Meanwhile, reacting to Jayant’s controversial statement, Union minister Anurag Thakur, who is also handling BJP’s Uttar Pradesh campaign, hit back at RLD chief saying that the actor-turned-Mathura MP was elected based on her capabilities, popularity and work.
“Not once, but many times she was elected to the Parliament with the public’s blessings. It is true he cannot become Hema Malini. He does not have the people’s blessing,” Thakur said at a media briefing.
Chaudhary lost the Mathura seat to Hema Malini in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. In 2019, he fought against Satya Pal Singh and lost from Baghpat.
Amit Shah, at a meeting with over 250 Jat leaders in Delhi on January 26, had sent feelers to Jayant saying he had gone into the wrong family and that the BJP doors would always be open for the RLD.
“Akhilesh Yadav and Jayant Chaudhary are together only till counting. If their (Samajwadi) government is formed, then Azam Khan will sit (in their government) and Jayant Bhai will be out,” Shah had said later while addressing a poll rally.
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UP elections 2022 to be fought under Yogi Adityanath’s leadership: BJP MP Hema Malini
By PTI
MATHURA: BJP MP from Mathura Hema Malini has said the development of Uttar Pradesh in the last over four years was “commendable” and the party will contest the 2022 state Assembly polls under Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s leadership.A week ago, Uttar Pradesh minister Swami Prasad Maurya had said the state’s next chief minister will be decided by the BJP’s central leadership after the assembly polls.
BJP’s state unit president Swatantra Dev Singh had earlier said the polls will be contested under Adityanath’s leadership.
“The next Uttar Pradesh Assembly election would be contested under the leadership of Yogi Adityanath,” veteran Bollywood actor-politician Malini said in response to reporters’ questions.
“Adityanath has done commendable development of Uttar Pradesh during over last four years,” she said on Sunday evening.
The MP also advised the people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and said the government has made adequate preparations to tackle an anticipated third wave of the virus.
“Since it is the best preventive medicine, there should be no hesitancy in getting vaccinated,” she said at a tourist facility centre in Vrindavan where she distributed kits to members of COVID-19 monitoring committee.
She said as scientists have expressed apprehension of a third wave of the coronavirus, it has to be taken seriously.
“We have suffered much in the second wave as people were careless after first wave,” the Mathura MP said.
She said face mask and social distancing are not the only things important in the fight against Covid.
“Vaccination is equally important”.
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Actor-politician Hema Malini takes COVID-19 vaccine in Mumbai
By PTI
MUMBAI: Veteran actor-politician Hema Malini on Saturday said she has received the first shot of the COVID-19 vaccine.In a post on Twitter, the BJP MP from Mathura shared that she got vaccinated at Cooper Hospital here.
“I have taken the Covid vaccine along with the public at Cooper Hospital,” she wrote alongside three photographs from the vaccine centre.
I have taken the Covid vaccine along with the public at Cooper Hospital pic.twitter.com/PIUXCh2xnp
— Hema Malini (@dreamgirlhema) March 6, 2021On Thursday, the 72-year-old actor had revealed on social media that she had registered to get inoculated and urged others to do it as well.
The government announced on Wednesday that everyone above 60 years of age and those over 45 years with comorbidities will be able to get COVID-19 vaccine from March 1 for free at government facilities and for a charge at many private hospitals.
Citizens will be able to register and book an appointment for vaccination, anytime and anywhere, using the Co-WIN 2.0 portal or through other IT applications such as Aarogya Setu.
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Protesting farmers don’t know what they want, are agitating on the behest of someone: Hema Malini
By ANI
MATHURA: Farmers agitating at the borders of Delhi don’t know what they want, said veteran actor and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Mathura, Hema Malini, and added that they are only protesting because someone had asked them to do so.“It is good that the Supreme Court has stayed the laws. This will hopefully calm the situation. Farmers are not willing to come to a consensus even after so many talks. They do not even know what they want and what is the problem with the farm laws. This means that they are doing this because someone asked them to do it,” Hema Malini said.
She also said that it was ‘not nice’ to see towers being vandalised in Punjab. “Punjab has suffered a lot of losses. It was not nice to see them (farmers) vandalise towers. The government has called them for talks repeatedly but they don’t even have an agenda,” she added.
Speaking about the COVID-19 situation, she reminded people that the pandemic is not yet over and masks should be used and safety protocols followed. “Corona is not yet over. Some people from our party passed away due to the disease. The general public should continue to be more cautious. If we roam around freely (without precautions) it will increase again. Especially with this new bird flu, everyone should take care of themselves and their family,” she said.
The actor-turned-politician further said that she would definitely be vaccinated when her turn comes. “Good that the vaccine is here now. I will definitely get the vaccine when my turn comes. The opposition has also said some things. Whatever the government says they have to say just the opposite,” she said.