Vote ka Saamna

Having recovered from the reality TV row over his friendship with Sachin, Vinod Kambli is now padding up for another kind of knock.

Former cricketer Vinod Kambli, having dusted off the controversy over his friendship with Sachin Tendulkar, is now gearing up for politics and has joined the relatively unknown Lok Bharati Party. Kambli is keen to contest the Assembly polls in Maharashtra later this year.

He has been flirting with politics for some time now. During the 2004 Assembly polls too, he had expressed a desire to be fielded as a candidate, but there were no takers among major political parties. In the intervening period from 2004, Kambli’s interaction with the public was through reality shows. Faced with a celebrity crunch, Lok Bharati founder, Kapil Patil, requested Kambli to sign up as a member of his newly formed political outfit. It was promptly done.

The move is welltimed with Assembly elections round the corner. “He is a celebrity and will be good for the party. There is a need for good people to join politics and Vinod Kambli is one of them. He is keen on contesting,” says Patil.

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