<p class="title">Over eight months after he was elected a Member of Parliament, actor-turned-rookie-politician Sunny Deol made his first appearance in his constituency on Sunday for an official meeting.</p>.<p class="title">Sunny has been 'missing in action' ever since he won his maiden election on a BJP ticket in May last year.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Some time ago, there were posters put up in Gurdaspur in a lookout notice for the 'missing MP' Sunny Deol owing to his prolonged absence from the constituency.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The poster episode may have been a ploy by BJP’s adversaries, yet Sunny has often drawn flak for arguably not devoting enough time among his constituents.</p>.<p class="bodytext">On Sunday, Sunny made his first appearance in Gurdaspur to attend an official meeting to review ongoing development works in the area.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Newspersons were barred from the meeting.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Soon after he became an MP, Sunny appointed his representative to 'look after his constituency'.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The move invited strong retaliatory reactions with Opposition parties and people criticizing the greenhorn MP for 'outsourcing' by proxy works of his constituency to a representative.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sunny had later issued a clarification through social media that his priority was the people of his area and that he would do all that is needed to ensure the development of the constituency.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sources said, while Sunday appearance was Sunny’s maiden visit for an official meeting, he may have otherwise visited Gurdaspur about seven times ever since he was elected the MP.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Gurdaspur seat is one of the three seats contested by the BJP in alliance with the Akali Dal in Punjab as part of the seat-sharing arrangement in which the Akali’s contest 7 of the 10 total Lok Sabha seats.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The seat from Gurdaspur was earlier represented by late actor Vinod Khanna who won the seat thrice as an MP.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The expectation of the people is more from Sunny given that Vinod Khanna was acclaimed for carrying out enormous development in the constituency.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Khanna also actively engaged with the people of Gurdaspur, something which Sunny has not managed to achieve. Sunny had defeated Congress president Sunil Jakhar by a margin of over 80,000 votes.</p>
<p class="title">Over eight months after he was elected a Member of Parliament, actor-turned-rookie-politician Sunny Deol made his first appearance in his constituency on Sunday for an official meeting.</p>.<p class="title">Sunny has been 'missing in action' ever since he won his maiden election on a BJP ticket in May last year.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Some time ago, there were posters put up in Gurdaspur in a lookout notice for the 'missing MP' Sunny Deol owing to his prolonged absence from the constituency.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The poster episode may have been a ploy by BJP’s adversaries, yet Sunny has often drawn flak for arguably not devoting enough time among his constituents.</p>.<p class="bodytext">On Sunday, Sunny made his first appearance in Gurdaspur to attend an official meeting to review ongoing development works in the area.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Newspersons were barred from the meeting.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Soon after he became an MP, Sunny appointed his representative to 'look after his constituency'.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The move invited strong retaliatory reactions with Opposition parties and people criticizing the greenhorn MP for 'outsourcing' by proxy works of his constituency to a representative.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sunny had later issued a clarification through social media that his priority was the people of his area and that he would do all that is needed to ensure the development of the constituency.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sources said, while Sunday appearance was Sunny’s maiden visit for an official meeting, he may have otherwise visited Gurdaspur about seven times ever since he was elected the MP.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Gurdaspur seat is one of the three seats contested by the BJP in alliance with the Akali Dal in Punjab as part of the seat-sharing arrangement in which the Akali’s contest 7 of the 10 total Lok Sabha seats.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The seat from Gurdaspur was earlier represented by late actor Vinod Khanna who won the seat thrice as an MP.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The expectation of the people is more from Sunny given that Vinod Khanna was acclaimed for carrying out enormous development in the constituency.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Khanna also actively engaged with the people of Gurdaspur, something which Sunny has not managed to achieve. Sunny had defeated Congress president Sunil Jakhar by a margin of over 80,000 votes.</p>