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Sunny Deol Offers Prayers At Golden Temple Before Filing Nomination From Gurdaspur

Darpan News Desk IANS, 29 Apr, 2019 09:38 PM

    Actor and BJP candidate Sunny Deol on Monday paid obeisance at the Golden Temple in Amritsar ahead of filling his nomination papers from the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat.

     

    Sporting a navy blue turban and wearing a blue shirt, the 62-year-old offered prayers at the sanctum sanctorum of the Golden Temple.

     

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    He also offered prayers at the Durgiana Temple. Later, he left for Gurdaspur where he will be filling his nomination papers.

     

    The BJP has fielded Sunny Deol, a Jat Sikh, from Gurdaspur constituency. Deol is pitted against sitting MP and Congress candidate Sunil Jakhar, AAP's Peter Masih and PDA's Lal Chand in the electoral fight from Gurdaspur seat.

     

    After filling his nomination papers, Deol will be addressing a rally at PDA ground in Gurdaspur. The senior leadership of the BJP and the SAD will also be present in the rally.

     

    After the rally, he will leave for Mumbai for casting his vote.

     
     

     
     

    Currently, the Gurdaspur constituency is represented by Congress MP Sunil Jakhar, who won the seat in the 2017 bypoll, which was necessitated after the death of Vinod Khanna in April that year.

     

    The Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat had been represented by late actor Vinod Khanna for four-times in the years1998, 1999, 2004 and 2014.

     

    Jakhar had defeated BJP candidate Swaran Salaria by a whopping margin of 1,93,219

     

    On Tuesday, Deol had joined BJP in the presence of Raksha Mantri Nirmala Sitharaman and Union Minister Piyush Goyal.

     
     
     
     

    Hours after he was inducted into the party, BJP had fielded Deol as its candidate from Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat, while sitting lawmaker from Chandigarh Kirron Kher was renominated from the Union Territory.

     

    Deol's father Dharmendra was BJP lawmaker from Bikaner in 2004. Deol will take on Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar from Gurdaspur, which was in the past represented by the late actor Vinod Khanna from the BJP.

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