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 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
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