Urmila Matondkar's new Political innings

Urmila Matondkar joins Shiv Sena

The Rangeela girl is all set and starts her new second political innings. After almost a year of quitting Congress, ‘petty in-house politics’, today she has joined Maharashtra’s ruling party Shiv Sena. The actress was seen joining the political party in the presence of Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray and celebrated her first day, other politicians extended a warm welcome to the actress and Urmila also shared some glimpse of her happiness on her official Twitter handle.

The Bollywood actress later sought blessings from Shiv Sena founder Balasaheb Thakeray. Urmila later tweeted, “Jai Maharashtra”. Earlier, Shiv Sena spokesperson Sanjay Raut, on Monday, had announced, “Urmila Matondkar may join Shiv Sena tomorrow. She is a Shivsainik. We are happy that she is joining the Shiv Sena. This will strengthen the party’s ‘mahila aghadi’.”

Urmila had earlier joined Congress and she had unsuccessfully contested for Lok Sabha in 2019 election which was from Mumbai North constituency. She had later quit the party and shared the statement about the same “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 .”