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Interesting: 'Item girl' Rakhi Sawant gets serious with politics

Rakhi Sawant, famously known as Bollywood's item girl aspires to someday become the Chief Minister of Maharashtra. Recently she joined Ramdas Athawale- led Republican Party of India - RPI (A) as National Executive President of


Rakhi Sawant participated in numerous other reality shows like – Nachh Baliye 3. She contested with her ex boyfriend Abhishek Awasti and ended up as second runners up.

In 2008 she participated in another dance competition – Yeh Hai Jalwa. Her group called Chillar party emerged victorious.

Rakhi Ka Swayamwar was the most successful reality show of August 2009 and it gained maximum TRP. In this show, she was to choose her future life partner.

Through this show, she decided to marry Elesh Parujanwala who was NRI from Toronto. After the show, the two broke their relation due to differences that were irreconcilable.