Actor-politician Sunny Deol is the Bharatiya Janata Party’s candidate from Gurdaspur, the party list released on Tuesday said.
The party’s fielding Kirron Kher from Chandigarh, a seat she currently represents. BJP leader Som Prakash has been given ticket from the Hoshiarpur (SC) Lok Sabha constituency instead of its sitting MP, Union Minister Vijay Sampla.
Sunny Deol is the second member of the family after his step mother Hema Malini, the BJP candidate renominated from Mathura, to be given ticket by the party in this election. His father Dharmendra was BJP MP 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.
Kher, meanwhile, will fight veteran Congress leader Pawan Bansal to retain Chandigarh. Som Prakash will go up against Congress party's Rajkumar Chabbewal.