<p>Though many film stars, who had jumped into the fray, had to bite the dust, some of them could make it to the parliament. As far as Karnataka is concerned, all the film stars drew a blank. <br /><br />Prominent Bollywood stars who romped home are Shatrughan Sinha from the BJP, Raj Babbar from the Congress and Jayaprada from the Samajwadi Party.<br /><br />Sinha trounced film star and TV actor Shekhar Suman of the Congress in the Patna Sahib constituency in Bihar. Telugu superstar Vijay Shanti made it to Lok Sabha from Medak on a Telangana Rashtra Samiti ticket whereas Praja Rajyam Party chief Chiranjeevi was elected to the Andhra Pradesh assembly from Tirupati.<br /><br />Tamil star Nepoleon made it to parlaiment on a DMK ticket, whereas Bengali stars Tapas Paul and Shatabdi Roy won their respective seats from West Bengal on Trinamool Congress tickets. Raj Babbar beat Seema Upadhyay of the Bahujan Samaj Party in Fatehpur Sikri in UP. However, the Kannada stars were not so lucky like their counterparts in other parts of the country. All the three film personalities from Karnataka – Ambareesh, Ashok and C P Yogeeshwar – failed to register victory. <br /><br />Ambareesh, the Congress candidate who had won the Mandya parliamentary seat for three consecutive times, lost to N Cheluvaraya Swamy of the JD(S).<br /><br />Actor-legislator C P Yogeeshwar, who had won all the assembly elections first as an independent candidate and then as a Congress candidate, was routed from the Bangalore Rural constituency.<br /><br />Actor Ashok, who is also the president of the Karnataka Film Workers Federation, lost from the Tumkur Lok Sabha seat. <br /><br />Tamil actor Vijayakant’s DMDK has played spoil-sport dashing the hopes of AIADMK Chief Jayalalithaa’s dream of securing a sweep in Tamil Nadu. <br /><br />Chiranjeevi won from Tirupati Assembly constituency, but lost from Palakollu. He beat his Congress rival and former chairman of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams B Karunakar Reddy by a margin of over 10,500 votes.<br /><br />The Samajwadi Party had pitched actress-turned-social activist Nafisa Ali for the Lucknow seat who lost miserably from the constituency earlier held by BJP veteran Atal Behari Vajpayee. </p>
<p>Though many film stars, who had jumped into the fray, had to bite the dust, some of them could make it to the parliament. As far as Karnataka is concerned, all the film stars drew a blank. <br /><br />Prominent Bollywood stars who romped home are Shatrughan Sinha from the BJP, Raj Babbar from the Congress and Jayaprada from the Samajwadi Party.<br /><br />Sinha trounced film star and TV actor Shekhar Suman of the Congress in the Patna Sahib constituency in Bihar. Telugu superstar Vijay Shanti made it to Lok Sabha from Medak on a Telangana Rashtra Samiti ticket whereas Praja Rajyam Party chief Chiranjeevi was elected to the Andhra Pradesh assembly from Tirupati.<br /><br />Tamil star Nepoleon made it to parlaiment on a DMK ticket, whereas Bengali stars Tapas Paul and Shatabdi Roy won their respective seats from West Bengal on Trinamool Congress tickets. Raj Babbar beat Seema Upadhyay of the Bahujan Samaj Party in Fatehpur Sikri in UP. However, the Kannada stars were not so lucky like their counterparts in other parts of the country. All the three film personalities from Karnataka – Ambareesh, Ashok and C P Yogeeshwar – failed to register victory. <br /><br />Ambareesh, the Congress candidate who had won the Mandya parliamentary seat for three consecutive times, lost to N Cheluvaraya Swamy of the JD(S).<br /><br />Actor-legislator C P Yogeeshwar, who had won all the assembly elections first as an independent candidate and then as a Congress candidate, was routed from the Bangalore Rural constituency.<br /><br />Actor Ashok, who is also the president of the Karnataka Film Workers Federation, lost from the Tumkur Lok Sabha seat. <br /><br />Tamil actor Vijayakant’s DMDK has played spoil-sport dashing the hopes of AIADMK Chief Jayalalithaa’s dream of securing a sweep in Tamil Nadu. <br /><br />Chiranjeevi won from Tirupati Assembly constituency, but lost from Palakollu. He beat his Congress rival and former chairman of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams B Karunakar Reddy by a margin of over 10,500 votes.<br /><br />The Samajwadi Party had pitched actress-turned-social activist Nafisa Ali for the Lucknow seat who lost miserably from the constituency earlier held by BJP veteran Atal Behari Vajpayee. </p>
