Bha Ja Paaji
The BJP heaved a sigh of relief when former Bollywood action hero Sunny Deol finally joined the party on April 23 and agreed to contest the Gurdaspur seat. The party's entire Plan B for Punjab-B as in Bollywood - rested on Deol.
BJP president Amit Shah has had no luck so far in attracting stars to the state. Akshay Kumar was briefly considered until the party discovered he was also a Canadian national. Akshaye Khanna declined to contest from his late father Vinod Khanna's seat Gurdaspur.
Even Sunny took some months to make up his mind. BJP veterans, who recall the tough time they had getting father Dharmendra
