By IANS,
New Delhi : Bollywood actors Shatrughan Sinha and Jaya Prada emerged victorious in the Lok Sabha elections among a list of Indian film personalities who contested the polls. However, many, including Vinod Khanna, Nafisa Ali and M.H. Ambareesh lost.
A list of film personalities who contested the Lok Sabha elections:
Shatrughan Sinha – Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) (Patna Saheb, Bihar) – Won
Shekhar Suman – Congress (Patna Saheb, Bihar) – Lost
Vinod Khanna – BJP (Gurdaspur, Punjab) – Lost
Vijayshanti – Telangana Rastra Samiti (TRS) (Medak, Andhra Pradesh) – Won
Nafisa Ali – Samajwadi Party (SP) (Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh) – Lost
Jaya Prada – SP (Rampur, Uttar Pradesh) – Won
Chiranjeevi – Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) (Tirupati assembly seat, Andhra Pradesh) – Won
Jayasudha – Congress Party (Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh) – Won
Roja Selvamani – Telugu Desam Party (TDP) (Chandragiri, Andhra Pradesh) – Lost
Yuvi Krishnan Raju – PRP (Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh) – Lost
Murali Mohan – TDP (Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh) – Lost
P. Babu Mohan – TDP (Andole, Andhra Pradesh) – Lost
Allu Aravind – PRP (Ankapalli, Andhra Pradesh) – Lost
Hans Raj Hans – Akali Dal (Jalandhar, Punjab) – Lost
Siddhant – Biju Janata Dal (BJD) (Berhempur, Orissa) – Won
Manoj Tiwary – Samajwadi Party (Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh) – Lost
Prakash Jha – Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) (West Champaran, Bihar) – Lost
Satabdi Roy – Trinamool Congress (Birbhum, West Bengal) – Won
Tapas Pal – Trinamool Congress (Krishnanagar in Nadia district, West Bengal) – Won
M.H. Ambareesh – Congress Party (Mandya, Karnataka) – Lost
C.P. Yogeeshwar – BJP (Bangalore Rural Parliamentry constituency) – Lost
Ashok – Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) (Tumkur, Karnataka) – Lost