Hema Malini fails to turn up at BJP rally

Veteran Bollywood actress Hema Malini (pictured above) on Sunday (April
26) kept anxious Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters waiting in the
Sikkim capital Gangtok where she was to address an election meeting.The BJP
blamed the central government for the flop show, as a party leader said Hema
Malini was denied permission to fly in a helicopter from Darjeeling to
Gangtok. However, Hema Malini later addressed the crowd over the phone after
the anxious supporters had been waiting for over five hours in the sun.

“I desperately wanted to be with you today as I had a lot to share. My
inability to come this time on behalf of the BJP, however, shall motivate me
to come there sooner.”I did not get permission to fly there and I know you
shall understand. I urge you to vote for the BJP which shall put an end to
such malpractices in the centre,” she said in her short message that was
aired through BJP state incharge Hirendra Pratab’s mobile phone.

The BJP had failed to gather a significant crowd and the inability of its
star campaigner to reach the meeting site was only a blessing in
disguise.Hardly a few hundred people had flocked at the Paljor Stadium for
the BJP rally.