‘Dabangg’ girl Sonakshi Sinha will campaign for her mother and Samajwadi Party candidate from Lucknow, Poonam Sinha, on Friday.
Sinha is pitted against Union Home Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rajnath Singh.
Sonakshi along with her father Shatrughan Sinha and twin brothers — Love and Kush — would hold a roadshow in the state capital. Several other Bollywood stars, including Jaya Bachchan, are also likely to join the Sinha family during the roadshow.
The roadshow will start from Samajwadi Party headquarters and pass through different parts of Lucknow. The Sinhas would board ‘Samajwadi Rath’ along with Dimple Yadav and others to seek vote for Poonam.
Polling for Lucknow Lok Sabha seat will be held in the fifth phase on May 6 and campaigning will end on May 4.
Congress has questioned the presence of party’s candidate from Patna Sahib Lok Sabha constituency, Shatrughan Sinha, campaigning in support of his wife, who is a SP candidate, in Lucknow.
“We have already asked Shatrughan to do his ‘political dharma’ by supporting the party (Congress) candidate in Lucknow when he performed his ‘family dharma’ by making his presence felt during the nomination of Poonam Sinha on April 18,” said Lucknow Congress candidate Acharya Pramod Krishnam in Lucknow on Thursday.
“It seems we have to fight SP candidate first in Lucknow before taking on our bigger rival Rajnath Singh,” he commented.
But Shatrughan Sinha said that he had taken prior permission from the party brass to campaign in favour of his wife in Lucknow. Polling in Patna Sahib parliamentary constituency of Bihar will be held in the last phase on May 19.