Urmila Matondkar joins congress party.
Bollywood actor Urmila Matondkar will join the Congress Wednesday and is likely to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
According to a senior Congress functionary, Matondkar will meet party president Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi shortly. She will be accompanied by Milind Deora, who was recently made the party’s Maharashtra unit chief, and senior leader Sanjay Nirupam.
Matondkar, likely to be fielded from the Mumbai North constituency, will then address a press conference at 2 pm.
“She is likely to be fielded from this seat but a final decision will be taken by the senior leadership,” said a senior Congress leader who didn’t wish to be named.
The 45-year-old ‘Masoom‘ star began her Bollywood career as a child artist at the age of seven with the Shashi Kapoor-Rekha starrer Kalyug in 1981. She launched her full-time acting career with 1991’s Narsimha. Over the last two decades, she has gained popularity for her movies like Rangeela (1995), Satya (1998), and Pinjar (2003), among others.
