Chandigarh: Actor and BJP candidate Sunny Deol filed Monday his nomination papers from the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat in Punjab. After paying obeisance at the Golden Temple and Durgiana Temple in Amritsar in the morning, Deol filed his nomination in Gurdaspur. He was accompanied by his brother and actor Bobby Deol.
Punjab BJP chief and Rajya Sabha MP Shwait Mailk, Haryana Finance Minister and party’s election in-charge of Punjab, Capt Abhimanyu and Akali leader Gurbachan Singh Babehali also accompanied Deol.
Deol will be addressing a rally at PUDA ground in Gurdaspur later in the day. Senior leadership of BJP and SAD will also be present in the rally. In a tweet, veteran actor Dharmendra sought support of the people for the victory of his son Deol from Gurdaspur seat.
“We seek your support…Support us…it will be your victory. It (victory) will be of brothers of sisters of my Punjab. It (victory) will of India’s beautiful part of Gurdaspur,” Dharmendra tweeted.
The BJP has fielded Deol, a Jat Sikh, from Gurdaspur constituency. He is pitted against sitting MP and Congress candidate Sunil Jakhar, AAP’s Peter Masih and PDA’s Lal Chand in electoral fight from Gurdaspur seat.
The Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat had been represented by late actor Vinod Khanna for four-times – 1998, 1999, 2004 and 2014. Jakhar had defeated BJP candidate Swaran Salaria by a whopping margin of 1,93,219 in the bypolls after Khanna’s death in 2016