Actor Sunny Deol Joins BJP:”My work will do the talking”

April 23, 2019

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New Delhi Actor Sunny Deol on Tuesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and said that he is looking forward to working with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He added that his work will do the talking.

Sunny Deol, 62, is best known for his action hero roles in films like “Ghayal“, “Gadar: Ek Prem Katha“, “Damini” and “Border“.He is the third Deol to join politics – and the BJP – after Dharmendra and his wife Hema Malini, also veteran actors.

“The way my Papa (Dharmendra) worked with and supported Atal ji (Atal Bihari Vajpayee), I am here today to work with and support Modi ji. My work will do the talking,” Sunny said after joining the BJP in the presence of Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Union Minister of Railways and Coal Piyush Goyal.

Welcoming him to the party, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman referred to his blockbuster 1997 movie “Border” based on an episode from the India-Pakistan of 1971. “Sunny Deol made the film Border which showed how the feeling of nationalism and patriotism when portrayed beautifully on film can touch a cord with the people.”
“I am indeed very happy to receive firebrand, popular, very committed to his art, young great artiste from the Bollywood, Sunny Deol. The moment we got to know that he is coming into the party, I could only relate to the film ‘Border’ that he had made… He is such a hero who has an artistic blood running in his family,” Sitharaman said.
Welcoming Sunny on board, Goyal said, “This reminds me of the moment when in 2008, Dharmendra ji was recuperating after a surgery, but still on party’s call he came to Parliament. Later he went back to the United States to finish his treatment. I have full faith that Sunny will work with the same passion.”
Sunny will contest from Gurdaspur Lok Sabha which was the constituency of veteran actor Vinod Khanna, who died in 2017.

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