Sunny Deol. | Photo Credit: Times Now

Mumbai: The 2019 Lok Sabha elections are a mixed bag of surprises and the latest rumour doing the rounds is that of Bollywood actor and son of veteran actress-politician Hema Malini, Sunny Deol, joining the Bharatiya Janata Party. According to media reports, the Maharashtra unit of the BJP has been asked to convince the actor to contest the upcoming 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

The Gurdaspur Lok Sabha constituency was a BJP bastion for close to two decades, led by another veteran Bollywood actor-turned-politician Vinod Khanna, who also represented the BJP. Khanna was the BJP MP from the seat from 1998-2009 and then from 2014 to 2017 till he passed away following a prolonged battle with cancer.

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In between, the Congress party held on to the seat from 2009-2014 after the Congress' Partap Singh Bajwa defeated Khanna. Again, following Khanna's demise, Sunil Jakhar of the Indian National Congress won the by-poll.