No more politics for me, says film star Dharmendra

Hindi film star Dharmendra today ruled out contesting another election in the future, saying politics was not for him.

"No," said the the former BJP member of Parliament from Bikaner when asked whether he would contest the elections again.

"I am an emotional person. I don't know which party is having what ideology. Take any party, no one considers the country as mother. Everywhere the country is being looted. The day political parties start regarding India as mother and begin serving her, the country will become a heaven," he told reporters here.

On his decision to fight the elections from Bikaner, the actor said that though he was unwilling to contest the polls owing to the prevailing political scenario, he decided to go ahead on the advice of a person who asked him, "What will happen to the country if good people don't join politics?"

Dharmendra said that though he won the Bikaner Lok Sabha seat
in 2004, he later regretted the decision to contest the elections.

"I felt bad for defeating my nearest rival," he said, adding that he discharged his duties as an MP religiously.

"What I did in Bikaner in five years wasn't done in the past 50 previous years. However, I don't desire to take credit for it," said the 75-year-old actor who was here to promote his upcoming film Yamla Pagla Deewana.