{"id":312584,"date":"2019-05-24T15:31:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T15:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312584"},"modified":"2019-05-24T15:48:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T15:48:32","slug":"film-celebrities-shine-in-lok-sabha-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/film-celebrities-shine-in-lok-sabha-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Celebrities shine in Lok Sabha Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-312585 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/celebs..-300x120.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/celebs..-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/celebs...jpg 566w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the political battle of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, several celebrities including Hema Malini, Sunny Deol, Kirron Kher,\u00a0Manoj\u00a0Tiwari emerged victorious.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Veteran\u00a0actress\u00a0Hema Malini won from Mathura by 293,471 votes, defeating Narendra Singh of Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Actress\u00a0Kirron Kher, the\u00a0BJP\u00a0candidate from Chandigarh, defeated Congress\u2019 Pawan Kumar Bansal by 46970 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bollywood&#8217;s actor Sunny Deol won Punjab\u2019s Gurdaspur seat with 82,459 votes against Congress\u2019\u00a0Sunil Jakhar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Singer Hans\u00a0Raj Hans\u00a0and\u00a0Bhojpuri actor Manoj\u00a0Tiwari, the BJP candidates from Delhi won easily.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Bhojpuri star Ravi Kishan\u00a0defeated Ram Bhual Nishad of\u00a0Samajwadi Party\u00a0(SP)in Gorakhpur by 301,664 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, actress Urmila Matondkar, who contested from Mumbai North as a Congress candidate lost to BJP&#8217;s\u00a0Gopal Shetty\u00a0by 465,247 votes and a<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">ctress\u00a0Moon Moon Sen\u00a0of Trinamool Congress lost to\u00a0singer\u00a0Babul Supriyo\u00a0of\u00a0BJP\u00a0in\u00a0Asansol\u00a0by 197,637 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the political battle of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, several celebrities including Hema Malini, Sunny Deol, Kirron Kher,\u00a0Manoj\u00a0Tiwari emerged victorious. Veteran\u00a0actress\u00a0Hema Malini won from Mathura by 293,471 votes, defeating Narendra Singh of Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD). Actress\u00a0Kirron Kher, the\u00a0BJP\u00a0candidate from Chandigarh, defeated Congress\u2019 Pawan Kumar Bansal by 46970 votes. Bollywood&#8217;s actor Sunny Deol won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[3939],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312584"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312589,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312584\/revisions\/312589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}