With just five weeks to go for voting for the lone Lok Sabha seat in Chandigarh, uncertainty continues on whether the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will re-nominate sitting member of parliament (MP) Kirron Kher for this crucial seat.

With the Congress re-nominating former Railways Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) reposing faith in former Union Minister and ex-MP Harmohan Dhawan, both parties have a headstart and the BJP is lagging on this front.

Though Kher, who has faced accusations from political opponents that she is mostly unavailable in Chandigarh owing to her busy acting schedule, has been staying put here to campaign for herself, top leaders of the Chandigarh unit of the BJP are not moving around with her.

Chandigarh BJP President Sanjay Tandon, who is the son of former Chhattisgarh Governor Balramji Dass Tandon and is a strong contender for the ticket this time, is campaigning separately and seeking votes only for the BJP and not for any candidate.