MP Congress Tries To Get Salman Khan To Campaign In Indore
The Madhya Pradesh Congress is trying to get Bollywood star Salman Khan to campaign for it in Madhya Pradesh's commercial capital Indore, a party leader said.
The
Madhya
Pradesh
Congress
is
trying
to
get
Bollywood
star
Salman
Khan
to
campaign
for
it
in
Madhya
Pradesh's
commercial
capital
Indore,
a
party
leader
said.
The
actor
was
born
in
Indore's
Palasia
area
in
1965
and
spent
a
substantial
part
of
his
childhood
in
that
city
before
moving
to
Mumbai.
"Our
leaders
have
already
talked
to
Salman
Khan
to
campaign
for
us
in
Indore.
We
are
almost
certain
the
actor
will
campaign
for
us," the
state's
Congress
spokesperson
Pankaj
Chaturvedi
said.
A
spokesperson
for
the
Bajrangi
Bhaijaan
actor
refused
to
comment.
"He
spent
his
childhood
in
Indore.
His
grandfather
was
a
senior
police
officer
there,"
Chaturvedi
added.
Khan
is
a
huge
crowd-puller
and
his
contribution
in
the
Congress' poll
campaign
will
change
the
party's
fortunes
in
the
city,
the
Congress
leader
said.
Indore,
Madhya
Pradesh's
largest
city,
has
been
a
BJP
bastion
since
Sumitra
Mahajan
defeated
former
chief
minister
and
senior
Congress
member
Prakash
Chandra
Sethi
in
1989.
Mahajan,
an
eight-time
MP
who
went
on
to
be
Lok
Sabha
speaker,
has
retained
the
seat
since
then.
Salman
campaigned
and
participated
in
a
road
show
for
the
Congress'
Indore
mayoral
candidate
Pankaj
Sanghavi
in
2009.
However,
the
move
did
not
pay
off
as
senior
BJP
leader
Krishna
Murari
Moghe
defeated
him.
Elections
in
Madhya
Pradesh
will
be
held
over
four
phases
beginning
April
29.