Rakhi Sawant dances to political tunes, to contest LS elections from Mumbai North-West

Mumbai: Bollywood actor Rakhi Sawant on Wednesday said she is going to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from the Mumbai North-West constituency on the plank of restoring women's safety in the metropolis.

Ms Sawant's rivals would be the Congress' Gurudas Kamat, Shiv Sena's Gajanan Kirtikar, actor-director Mahesh Manjrekar of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, and Mayank Gandhi of the Aam Aadmi Party.

When asked if she would be standing as an independent, she said a political party had offered her a ticket, and she would soon reveal its name.

"I don't know how to play politics. I am here to solve the problems of common man. My aim is to do good work for the society. I am not striving to become a politician. People want me to fight the election and hence I am here," she told PTI.

"I have been doing a lot of social work for the last seven years. My aim is to bring back women's safety. I don't want Mumbai to become like Delhi. I want to arrange self-defence and karate classes for women so that they can protect themselves," she said.

Bollywood item girl Rakhi Sawant at a press conference in Mumbai on Wednesday. She will contest the Lok Sabha elections from the Mumbai North-West constituency.