Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt is set to re-enter politics, according to a minister from Maharashtra nearly after ten years his maiden political venture failed to take off from Uttar Pradesh as a Samajwadi Party candidate. According to news agency, PTI, the actor on September 25 is set to join the Rashtriya Samaj Paksh (RSP), Mahadev Jankar, the party founder and Cabinet minister disclosed on Sunday. The RSP is a junior ally of the ruling BJP in Maharashtra.

The news agency also reported that Mahadev Jankar claimed that the RSP was tapping the film industry to expand the party which mainly represents 'Dhangar' or the shepherd community. "...We have started working in the film sector as well to expand our party. As part of which, actor Sanjay Dutt is also joining the Rashtriya Samaj Paksh on September 25," announced Mahadev Jankar, who holds Animal Husbandry and Dairy Development portfolios. He also played a pre-recorded video of Sanjay Dutt in which the latter has greeted the RSP and addressed Mahadev Jankar as his "brother".