{"id":660830,"date":"2024-03-26T12:09:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T16:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/?p=660830"},"modified":"2024-03-26T12:09:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T16:09:38","slug":"wanted-to-be-a-businessman-became-an-actor-now-onscreen-ram-will-contest-elections-from-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/660830\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted to be a businessman, became an actor\u2026 now onscreen ‘Ram’ will contest elections from BJP"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Meerut: <\/span><\/strong>\u00a0BJP has fielded Arun Govil, who won the hearts of the audience by playing the role of Lord Ram, from Meerut Lok Sabha seat.\u00a0By fielding candidates from Vaishya community in Meerut and Kshatriya community candidates from Ghaziabad, BJP has fulfilled the quota of both the communities.\u00a0Many leaders from Vaishya community were in contention from Meerut.\u00a0Three-time MLA Amit Aggarwal had a strong claim.\u00a0Consumer Cooperative Union President Sanjeev Goyal Sikka was also busy in the area.\u00a0Two days ago, the name of Metropolitan President Mukesh Singhal also came into discussion.\u00a0Business leader Vineet Aggarwal Sharda was making a strong claim.\u00a0Apart from Metropolitan President Suresh Jain Rituraj, Vikas Aggarwal and Sudhir Aggarwal also had strong claims from Hapur, but on Sunday night, BJP put an end to all the speculations and cast the final vote in the name of Arun Govil.<\/span><\/p>\n

By not declaring candidates for four western seats in its first list, BJP had given indications of changing the tickets of Meerut and Ghaziabad.\u00a0Since then it was believed that the party would not contest elections this time to three-time MP Rajendra Aggarwal.\u00a0In fact, last time Rajendra Aggarwal had won from BSP-SP alliance candidate Haji Yakub in a very tough contest.\u00a0The difference between victory and defeat was only 4729 votes.\u00a0The BJP high command believed that a celebrity candidate should be fielded in areas where the party wins by a small margin.\u00a0This was the reason why Rajendra Aggarwal’s ticket was canceled and Arun Govil became the candidate.<\/span><\/p>\n

Arun Govil was born on 12 January 1958 in Cantt.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Apart from stardom, Arun Govil, who played the character of ‘Shri Ram’ in Ramayana, also has a Meerut connection.\u00a0He was born on 12 January 1958 in Meerut Cantt.\u00a0His father Chandraprakash Govil was a hydraulic engineer from Meerut Municipality.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Arun’s early education was from Saraswati Shishu Mandir, Purva Mahavir and Government Inter College.\u00a0He was educated in Saharanpur and Shahjahanpur.\u00a0He received his formal education at Chaudhary Charan Singh University.\u00a0He studied engineering science and acted in some plays.\u00a0His father wanted him to become a government employee, while Arun wanted to do something for which he would be remembered.\u00a0Arun is the fourth among six brothers and two sisters.\u00a0Govil is married to actress Sreelekha.\u00a0They have two children, Sonika and Amal.\u00a0At the age of 17, he went to Mumbai for business and started his struggle to become an actor.<\/span><\/p>\n

Started with 1977 film ‘Paheli’<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Arun Govil may have become popular in every household with the serial ‘Ramayana’, but he had debuted on the big screen long ago with the 1977 film ‘Paheli’.\u00a0This film was of Rajshree Productions, a production house that makes family films.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0The character of Ram had made Arun special from the ordinary.\u00a0People used to fall at his feet as soon as they saw him in public places.\u00a0People started seeing him as Lord Rama and wanted his blessings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Remained active in TV industry after Ramayana<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

After Ramayana, Govil has been active in the TV industry and acted in many mythological serials.\u00a0He also played the role of King Harishchandra in TV shows named Luv-Kush, Vishwamitra and Buddha.<\/span><\/p>\n

His second popular character on TV was Raja Vikram of ‘Vikram Betal’.\u00a0People liked this show and Arun Govil’s character very much.\u00a0Arun also appeared in many films like ‘Shradhanjali’, ‘Itni Si Baat’, ‘Jio To Aise Jio’, ‘Sawan Ko Aane Do’.<\/span><\/p>\n

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