Actor-turned-politician Urmila Matondkar will be joining Maharashtra’s Ruling Party Shiv Sena led by Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday.
Harshal Pradhan, a party functionary of Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, on Sunday said that Ms Matondkar will join the party in an event on Tuesday attended by the chief minister.
Matondkar, who quit Congress last year, had contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from the Mumbai North constituency on Congress ticket. The actress have been nominated by Shiv Sena to the legislative council from the governor’s quota.
For the uninformed, Matondkar had joined Congress five months before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and left the party in September after losing to MP Gopal Shetty. Even as she lost the election by a huge margin, her activeness and unique promotional strategies gained her mass recognition as a politician.
She had cited “petty party politics” as the reason to quite congress and had written, “I’ve resigned from the Indian National Congress. The first thought of resignation came to me when after my repeated efforts, no action was taken in pursuance of my letter dated 16th May, addressed to then Mumbai Congress President Mr Milind Deora. Thereafter, to my utter dismay, the said letter containing privileged and confidential communication was conveniently leaked to the media, which according to me, was an act of blatant betrayal. Needless to say, no one from the party was apologetic or even concerned towards me for the same despite my repeated protests.”
Apart from Urmila, 11 other people have been nominated by the by the three-party Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government for their nomination from the governor’s quota.
The governor is yet to make a decision on the list of 12 names.
Urmila was recently in headlines when she criticised Kanagna Ranauat’s ‘Mumbai feels like Pakistan occupied Kashmir’ jibe.
The latter had than made demeaning remarks against the Rangeela actor.
