Dharmendra votes for dictatorship

Unbridled powers to run the country for five years is Bollywood star Dharmendra's solution to all the ills ailing the society.

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Provoked by objections raised by Rajasthan Congress leader Naval Kishore Sharma to his affidavit submitted while filing his nomination papers as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from Bikaner, Dharmendra said: "I wanted to make a soft entry into politics, but now someone has put his foot on the tail of a lion and I would now make my entry with full force. Make me a dictator for five years and I would remove all the dirt from the Indian politics and make it clean."

Sharma has pointed out that Dharmendra has not mentioned the assets owned by his second wife, Hema Malini, in the affidavit.
 
"The property that I have declared belongs to Prakash Kaur [his first wife]," he said.

Dharmendra was speaking to the Aaj Tak news channel from Bikaner. He said he decided to enter politics because he felt people like Atal Bihari Vajpayee and other leaders of the BJP were keen to take the country forward.

In Delhi, BJP spokesman Prakash Javdekar defended Dharmendra's statement: "What is wrong with this kind of statement? Balasaheb Thackeray has been making similar statements for several years. He has merely made a statement. Don't take it seriously," he told rediff.com.