TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ It’s a hat-trick for the Deols. After Dharmendra and Hema Malini, actor Sunny Deol joins the Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of Union Ministers Piyush Goyal and Nirmala Sitharaman. In a short acceptance speech Sunny said he was inspired by the PM Modi and would let his work speak.
He is likely to be the BJP candidate from Gurdaspur in Punjab. The BJP has formed an alliance with Shiromani Akali Dal and is fighting three of the 13 parliamentary seats in Punjab: Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Hoshiarpur.
Gurdaspur was the constituency of veteran actor Vinod Khanna, who died in 2017. There was a buzz for some time that the BJP may field his wife Kavita Khanna or son Akshaye Khanna from there. Sunny Deol, 62, is best known for his action hero roles in films like Ghayal, Gadar: Ek Prem Katha, Damini and Border.
