New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate Sushil Rinku on Saturday received the Jalandhar (Punjab) Lok Sabha bypoll with a margin of greater than 58,000 votes over his nearest rival and Congress nominee Karamjit Kaur Chaudhary. Out of 8.87 lakh votes polled, Rinku received over 3.02 lakh votes, whereas Chaudhary obtained 2.43 lakh votes. Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) candidate Sukhwinder Kumar Sukhi, who was additionally backed by the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), was on the third spot with 1.58 lakh votes and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nominee Inder Iqbal Singh Atwal was on the fourth spot with 1.34 lakh votes.
The Jalandhar bypoll, voting for which was held on May 10, was necessitated following the demise of Karamjit Kaur’s husband and Congress MP Santokh Singh Chaudhary in January.Â
The byelection was a litmus take a look at for the 13-month-old AAP authorities in Punjab, the place its victory has now stamped its administrative and management acumen, and has marked its presence within the Lok Sabha.Â
In June 2022, the Aam Aadmi Party witnessed a serious setback when SAD (Amritsar) candidate Simranjit Singh Mann received the Sangrur Lok Sabha seat after defeating AAP’s Gurmail Singh. Bhagwant Mann had represented this seat twice — 2014 and 2019 — and vacated the seat after changing into the Chief Minister.
For the Jalandhar bypoll, the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP fielded Sushil Rinku, who joined the celebration after quitting the Congress. He helped the AAP get extra votes as he belongs to the Ravidassia sect and the Jalandhar seat has 38 per cent Dalit inhabitants, comprising 21 per cent Ravidasias and the remaining Valmiki or Mazhbi Sikhs.
The win for the celebration can be seen as the results of its strikes to supply free electrical energy, jobs to the youths, regularising providers of contractual staff and opening numerous mohalla clinics. The AAP’s victory additionally got here amid the Mann-led authorities taking motion in opposition to corruption.
Arvind Kejriwal Bhagwant Mann’s Punjab govt after Jalandhar bypoll win
With the AAP candidate within the Jalandhar Lok Sabha bypoll profitable by a giant margin, celebration nationwide convener Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday mentioned the ‘unprecedented victory’ is due to the Bhagwant Mann authorities’s good work in Punjab.
Talking to reporters on the AAP headquarters within the nationwide capital, alongside Bhagwant Mann, Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal mentioned, “It’s an unprecedented victory because of the Mann government’s good work. Our party candidate is winning from the seat which was a Congress stronghold for the last 50 years.”
He added that ‘we do of politics of labor and search votes from individuals for our work’.Â
“People have put a stamp on Bhagwant Mann government’s work saying ‘we are with you’… This is a big message,” he added.
Mann mentioned the pattern of the bypoll result’s the individuals’s ‘constructive stamp’ on the work accomplished by his authorities in Punjab up to now.
“The election result has increased our responsibility and my confidence. We will work much harder for the development of Punjab,” he mentioned.
