LS polls: Sunny Deol meets Amit Shah, raises speculations over his contest on BJP's ticket from Punjab
New Delhi, Apr 20 (IBNS): Raising speculations over his possible candidature to contest the Lok Sabha polls on saffron outfit's ticket, Bollywood actor Sunny Deol met Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Amit Shah here on Saturday.
Sources told NDTV that Shah met Deol to convince him to contest from the Amritsar constituency of Punjab.
"I heard about it (rumours about joining politics). I just met him (Amit Shah) and we took a photograph, that's it," the actor told NDTV.
In Punjab, the BJP is fighting the polls in an alliance with Shiromani Akali Dal. The saffron party will field its candidates in three seats- Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Hoshiarpur- out of 13.
Deol, the son of Bollywood veteran Dharmendra, has acted in a number of films like Gadar: Ek Prem Katha, Border, 23rd March 1931, which had patriotic background.
Dharmendra, the husband of BJP's outgoing MP Hema Malini, was elected as a Lok Sabha MP from Bihar after fighting on the saffron party's ticket.
Malini is contesting as the BJP candidate in this Lok Sabha polls as well from Mathura.
Last week, Dharmendra had campaigned for his second wife Malini in Mathura.
Punjab will go to polls in the last phase on May 19.
Image Credit: twitter.com/iamsunnydeol
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