Former actor turned politician, Urmila Matondkar, who left the Congress party in September 2019, will be joining the Shiv Sena on Tuesday (1 December) and is all set to be nominated as a Member of Legislative Council (MLC) in the state, Press Trust of India has reported.
Matondkars name is part of twelve names which has been forwarded by the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi government to the Governor for MLC nomination.
On Tuesday, Matondkar is expected to join the Shiv Sena in Uddhav Thackeray’s presence.
In the 2019 general elections, Matondkar fought on a Congress ticket from Mumbai North parliamentary constituency and lost the election by a margin of almost 4 lakh votes against Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Gopal Shetty.
In September of the same year, she had resigned from the Congress party accusing it of using her as a pawn for petty internal politics and also alleged, some of her own party people had sabotaged her campaign during the elections and they were rewarded later.
Matondkar who now joins the Shiv Sena had once said that Hinduism was the “most violent religion”. She said, “The religion which has been known for its religious tolerance has turned out to be the most violent religion of them all. What is sad is that this sort of terribly heinous actors have been applauded and are constantly going viral. People are made to believe this is how the society always was.”
However, she later clarified following a backlash and said that Hinduism was an epitome of peace but under the leadership, Prime Minister Narendra Modi it has turned out to be most violent of them all.