New Delhi: Former top cop and activist Kiran Bedi, Former AAP member Shazia Ilmi were expected to join BJP and now Samajwadi Party (SP) MP Jaya Prada is likely to contest against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal in the upcoming Delhi Assembly polls, sources say.

The actor-turned-politician has been in constant touch with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). She reportedly met BJP chief Amit Shah recently. According to sources, if the BJP decides to give her the ticket, she may be fielded from the New Delhi constituency from where Kejriwal will contest elections.

Jaya Prada had lost the 2014 Lok Sabha polls from Bijnor seat in Uttar Pradesh. Along with her mentor Amar Singh, the politician had joined Ajit Singh’s Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) in 2014.
 
She was an MP from Rampur parliamentary seat in UP twice in 2004 and 2009.