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Salman Khan who is partial to all things Sonakshi these days was keen to have BJP heavyweightShatrughan Sinha play Kareena Kapoor's father in his next release Bodyguard.Shotgun had been through the story narration and agreed in principle to the role. 

However he backed out at the nth hour and has been replaced by Congress MP Raj Babbar. 

Raj is currently in Patiala shooting for Bodyguard. Sources say that the makers of Bodyguard who are committed to a August 31(Eid release) had to make the decision of placing Shatru with Raj because after he bagged the Bihari version of KBC, Shotgun's dates were clashing. 

He could no longer accommodate Bodyguard. Says a source, ''Producer Atul Agnihotri and Salman were very keen to have Sinha saab in their film. But since his dates were all taken up by the television game show, Sinha saab was having a tough time accommodating anything else. He tried his level best but Atul couldn't even give him a leeway because they are rushing to complete Bodyguard. Hence Rajji graciously agreed to step in.'' 

It is sheer coincidence that the BJP's loss turned out to be the Congress' gain.