In 2009 elections, her main opponent was indepedent Om Prakash Yadav. Heena was not an active campaigner, showing herself in public only at a few meetings with RJD cheif Lalu Prasad Yadav and her star campaigner, bollywood movie actor Sanjay Dutt. She garnered 172,764 (~29%) of the votes, but lost to Prakash by 63,000 votes.