March 27 :Bollywood actress Urmila Matondkar joined the Congress party after a meeting with party chief Rahul Gandhi.
Actor received a bouquet from Rahul Gandhi.Mumbai Congress chief Milind Deora and his predecessor Sanjay Nirupam was also present at the meeting.
Urmila Matondkar is expected to be a Congress candidate in Mumbai in Lok Sabha Polls.
Urmila said joining Congress is a step towards “active politics”.
Stating that she had been raised in a family that believed in social awareness and strong political ideals, “I am from a family that has shaped my political views based on the ideology of Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel. It is another matter that despite being from an academics-oriented family, I joined films. But I had social awareness right from childhood,” said the actor.
