Kavita Khanna, wife of late Vinod Khanna could be the BJP candidate for Gurdaspur seat for which byelection is due. Local BJP workers have also backed her name. The Gurdaspur seat is considered a stronghold of the BJP . Let me tell you, he was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1998, and went on to retain the seat till 2009, when he lost to the then Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa. In 2014, he was chosen to contest the election and re-claimed the seat with a vote margin of 1.36 lakh.