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Hindi cinema’s ‘He-Man’ Dharmendra ruled the big screen for decades with his strong acting and charisma. But there came a time when he decided to try his luck in the arena of politics along with films. In the year 2004, he contested elections on BJP ticket, won and also became MP. But by the end of his 5-year tenure, he became so disillusioned with politics that he never looked back at it.
After all, what happened that ‘He-Man’ accepted defeat in just 5 years? The story behind it is as interesting as his films.
Became a leader influenced by ‘Shining India’
In the year 2004, Dharmendra was very impressed by BJP’s ‘Shining India’ campaign. At that time, he along with Shatrughan Sinha came to meet veteran BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani, and from here the script of his political journey was written. Seeing his popularity, BJP nominated him for Rajasthan. Bikaner Gave Lok Sabha ticket from the seat.
On the strength of his stardom, Dharmendra registered a landslide victory by defeating the Congress candidate by a huge margin of about 60,000 votes and reached Delhi Parliament.
When film promise became a noose around the neck
Dharmendra made full use of his filmy style during the election campaign. He released his blockbuster film ‘cinder’ Referring to a famous scene, he had promised the public that if the government would not listen to him, he would Will climb on the roof of the Parliament and jump.
But when it came time to keep the promises, the story turned out to be different. After the victory, Dharmendra started being accused that he was not visible in his parliamentary constituency Bikaner. His attendance in Parliament was also very less. The people of Bikaner often complained that their MP spends most of his time shooting for his films in Mumbai or at his farmhouse. These criticisms caused great damage to his image.
Why was there disillusionment with politics?
After somehow completing his 5-year term, Dharmendra did not contest elections again in 2009 and said goodbye to politics forever. Many years later, his son Sunny Deol revealed the reason in an interview. Sunny told that his father did not like politics at all and he did not want to contest elections. regret Was.
Dharmendra himself had once revealed the real reason for this, when he had said, “I used to do the work, someone else took the credit. Maybe this place was not for me.”
Perhaps this was the bitter truth of politics, which a simple person like Dharmendra could not digest. He understood that being a ‘He-Man’ of films and being a ‘player’ of politics are two completely different things. This was the reason why this ‘He-Man’ of Bollywood could not fit himself in the arena of politics and kept distance from it forever.
