Kirron is not conventional politician: Anupam Kher

Veteran actor Anupam Kher says he does not see his wife and Lok Sabha MP Kirron Kher as a "conventional" politician but finds her interest in Indian politics increased during the last 6-7 years.
This comes despite Kirron saying she is not a politician and did not ask for the party ticket to contest the last Lok Sabha polls from Chandigarh.
In a first of its kind open interaction with his wife here, the 60-year-old actor today put out questions to Kirron on wide-ranging issues including her early days in Chandigarh, development plans for the city, among other things.
"I am not a politician. I do not see myself as politician. I see myself as somebody who is working for my city and fought (elections) to get one more seat to (Narendra) Modi ji. That is how see myself. I did not ask for the ticket. It was given to me and now I am here," Kirron, 60, said during the interaction.

Anupam, quickly added, saying, "I would like to correct you (Kirron). You are not a conventional politician. It (MP) is a political post and you cannot run away from it. You are in politics because of politics."
He shared with the gathering, which included senior bureaucrats Adviser to UT Administrator Vijay Dev, that he had seen her growing interest in politics in the last few years.

"During last 7-8 years of our life, I have seen you have got involved in politics of the country. Every time I came home, you were watching TV, political news...," said Anupam, who neither considers himself as politician nor a BJP party member.

Kirron said she strongly believes in the good governance of BJP.
The actress-politician said she found that several senior leaders of BJP including L K Advani, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Jaswant Singh, Yashwant Sinha, Arun Jaitley during last NDA government were approachable to people.