Political Career
On 19 March 2009, Mallika Sarabhai announced her candidature against the Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate L K Advani for the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat, as an independent candidate. A Congress spokesperson made it clear that she was not the Congress's candidate, nevertheless there was speculation that the Congress high command had asked the Gujarat state unit to support her candidature. In a reply to a question, she said she had neither personally approached the Congress nor did it offer to make her its candidate for the 2009 election, however in the past she had received many offer from the Congress to contest election, the first being in 1984 from Rajiv Gandhi. She described her candidature as a Satyagraha against the politics of hatred. She eventually lost to L K Advani by a huge margin and forfeited her election deposit in the process.
During BJP chief minister's sadbhavna (harmony) fast ( from 17-19 Sept 2011), she protested against the Chief Minister Narendra Modi
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