In 2014, the Modi wave had pitched actor-turned-politician Kirron Kher into Parliament. But this time the turf is not easy for the Chandigarh MP and BJP candidate who is facing ‘outsider’ tag and dissension against her candidature within her party. 
Her Congress rival, four-time MP and former Union minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, who has taken up local issues with a vengeance, appears to have an edge while Kirron is once again banking heavily on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity to win a second term.
The BJP state unit is divided over who, between her and state party president Sanjay Tandon, should have got the ticket.