Renowned classical danseuse Mallika Sarabhai on Thursday (19th March) announced that, she will take on BJP’s prime ministerial candidate L K Advani from the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat. Interacting with the media at her Darpana Academy, the 51-year-old danseuse also made it clear that she would contest the poll as an independent candidate.

 

She also informed the media that, she had neither personally approached the Congress nor did it offer to make her its candidate in Gandhinagar or elsewhere for the elections. She also claimed that 1984 onwards, the Congress had been offering her party ticket in every assembly and general elections, but she had spurned the offer all the times.

 

Regarding the timing of her contesting the elections Mallika said that it was the most appropriate time to jump into the electoral fray because it was the decisive moment for Indian politics. Indian politics is going from bad to worse and it needs to be reclaimed from the hands of politicians involved in all sorts of crime, corruption and horse-trading, she added. Clarifying her choice of Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat she said that, she is a local of this constituency and wants to return it the gift of identity and community it has given her.