AAP Defeats INDIA Bloc Ally Congress 3-1 In Punjab Bypolls – News18
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AAP received the Chabbewal, Gidderbaha, and Dera Baba Nanak meeting seats for the primary time however misplaced the Barnala seat that it received within the 2017 and 2022 elections
AAP nationwide convener Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann. (File pic/News18)
Punjab’s ruling Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) on Saturday added three extra meeting seats to its kitty because it received in Chabbewal, Gidderbaha, and Dera Baba Nanak for the primary time in by-elections. Nevertheless, it misplaced the Barnala seat that it received within the 2017 and 2022 elections.
AAP nationwide convener Arvind Kejriwal posted on social media web site X that individuals had as soon as once more trusted the celebration’s ideology. In a publish in Hindi, he thanked the individuals of Punjab and congratulated everybody.
पंजाब के लोगों ने उपचुनाव में आम आदमी पार्टी को चार में से तीन सीट देकर फिर से आम आदमी पार्टी की विचारधारा और हमारी सरकार के काम पर विश्वास जताया है। पंजाब के लोगों का बहुत-बहुत शुक्रिया और सबको बहुत-बहुत बधाई। https://t.co/z9wrT9aasa— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) November 23, 2024
‘3 cheers’ for AAP
4 meeting constituencies in Punjab went for bypolls on November 20 after the incumbent MLAs have been elected to the Lok Sabha in June. Because the outcomes have been declared on Saturday, the celebration bagged three of those seats that it did not win even when it witnessed a large victory in 2022.
The 117-member Punjab meeting has 113 MLAs as of now, together with 91 from AAP and 15 from Congress. Now AAP’s tally will enhance by three and Congress’s by one.
In Chabbewal, AAP’s Ishank Kumar received by a margin of 28,690 votes in opposition to the Congress. Congress’s Ranjit Kumar was in second place with 23,214 votes, whereas Kumar bagged 51,904.
In 2017 and 2022, Ishank Kumar’s father, Raj Kumar, received the seat as a Congress candidate. In March 2024, he resigned from the Congress and the meeting. He later joined AAP and fought and received the Lok Sabha election.
In Dera Baba Nanak, AAP candidate Gurdeep Singh Randhawa secured 59,104 votes in opposition to Congress’s Jatinder Kaur Randhawa. The Congress misplaced by shut to five,700 votes because it acquired 53,405 votes.
In Gidderbaha, AAP’s Hardeep Singh Dimpy Dhillon received by a margin of 21,969 votes in opposition to Congress chief Amrita Warring. The spouse of Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring secured 49,675 votes in opposition to 71,644 bagged by Dhillon.
AAP ‘burnt’ in Barnala by insurgent?
Two-time AAP MLA Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer was elected to the Lok Sabha in June, vacating the seat. The bypolls have been introduced, and the celebration trusted Harinder Singh Dhaliwal, thought of near Hayer, reasonably than Gurdeep Singh Bathh, who was the district president. He stop the celebration and fought as an impartial candidate. His candidature could have price AAP the seat, numbers counsel.
Congress chief Kuldeep Singh Dhillon received the seat with 28,254 votes, whereas AAP’s Dhaliwal was second with 26,097—a margin of two,157 votes. Bathh was fourth with 16,899 votes. The BJP stood in third place on the seat. Congress chief Dhillon was an MLA from the seat in 2007 and 2012.
AAP, which first fought the Punjab polls in 2017, had held the Barnala seat since then. In 2017, AAP acquired solely 20 seats within the state, together with Barnala. In 2022, the celebration swept the elections within the state by securing 92 seats.
Whereas the victory margin of AAP in 2017 on the Barnala seat was round 2,450 votes, in 2022, it received by a margin of greater than 37,620 votes.
AAP nationwide convener Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Singh Mann went to the seat to deal with jansabhas (public conferences) and marketing campaign for the bypolls.
