Jaya Prada

Whatever they are showing in the film 'Manikarnika,' I feel I was like that.

Even as a sitting MP from a party, I wasn't spared. Azam Khan harassed me. He attempted an acid attack on me.

Because the state I was in, contesting elections with Azam Khan, as a woman, with acid attack threats, threat to my life... I couldn't even tell my mother if I would come back alive whenever I left from home.

So many people have helped me in my life, and Amar Singh ji is my godfather.

I am sure the people of Rampur will once again give me a chance to represent them.

I have an emotional attachment with the people of Rampur.

The national party's well-disciplined cadre and election machinery is working round the clock for me.

During earlier occasions, I was fighting big parties - the BJP, Congress and BSP - and had also to face factional fight within the SP. I had to take on Sonia Gandhi, Mayawati and Azam Khan. I did have the support of Mulayam Singh Yadav though.

I set up a centre for zari-zardozi artists near Paharganj.

Azam Khan has made me the focus of his campaign. I have for long been suffering his tongue-lash. It only reflects his state of mind. He does a lot of drama.

The UPA government talks more and works less. Most of its schemes look impressive on paper while they are not implemented properly at the grassroots level even in Congress-ruled states.

I moved to the SP. I worked for them for 10 years. But they don't have any ideology. They work only for Muslim votes because that's how they feel they will win.

Azam Khan has killed industry in Rampur and I want to turn the clock around.

The BJP works for the people. For development, for women, for the poorest of the poor. That is the ideology. I identify with it.

Every politician goes through a lean patch during which they go back to their main area of expertise. Some return to business, some practice law, and I... have come back to cinema.

The love I have got from the people is amazing. It overwhelms me.

I have been a hard-working politician.

It is unfortunate that nobody has highlighted the work done by actor-turned-politician Sunil Dutt.

For me, the rules of politics are 3 Ds which stand for devotion, dedication and determination.

My passion is dancing and music.