Popular Kannada actress Pooja Gandhi who contested assembly elections from Raichur constituency on BSR congress ticket has been defeated. Pooja Gandhi joined BSR party which was recently launched by Sri Ramulu.
Pooja Gandhi ruled Kannada film industry for many years, but she is known to Telugu audiences as Dandupalyam heroine. Her Kannada film, Danduapalyam, was dubbed into Telugu by the same name and the movie ran well in B and C centres in Andhra Pradesh.