Punjab election result LIVE: AAP wins 92 seats; Bhagwant Singh set to be CM

Punjab election result 2022 LIVE updates: Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday emerged victorious in the Punjab Assembly Elections 2022. Bhagwant Mann will be the chief minister.

Punjab election result 2022 LIVE updates: Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday emerged victorious in the Punjab Assembly Elections 2022, with a sweeping victory on 92 out of the 117 assembly seats. The Congress was able to secure 18 seats, while Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) won only three seats. BJP on the other hand, scrapped win on two seats. AAP leader Bhagwant Mann is set to become the new Chief Minister of the state.

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Traditionally, the Congress and the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) were the two key political players in Punjab. However, this time, the state witnessed a multi-cornered contest between the ruling Congress, the AAP, the SAD-BSP alliance, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) - Punjab Lok Congress (PLC) alliance.

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10:51 PM

Punjab elections 2022: Among 13 winning women candidates, 11 belong to AAP

Thirteen of the 93 women who contested the Punjab polls tasted victory and 11 of them belong to the Aam Aadmi Party, which registered a landslide win bagging 92 of the 117 assembly seats.

 

Most of the AAP women candidates who won are greenhorns.

 

From Amritsar East, Jeevanjyot Kaur of AAP defeated Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu by a margin of 6,750 votes. Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia was also contesting from the seat, but he ended up at the third spot.

 

However, Majithia's wife Ganieve Kaur tasted victory from Majitha seat, from where she had entered the fray after her husband, a sitting MLA from there, decided to leave the seat and contest from Amritsar East.

9:18 PM

Punjab polls: AAP greenhorn, eye surgeon make Channi bite the dust

Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi was defeated by AAP's first-timer and an eye surgeon from Bhadaur and Chamkaur Sahib seats, respectively.

 

Bhadaur AAP candidate Labh Singh Ugoke defeated Channi by a comprehensive margin of 37,558 votes.

 

Dr Charanjit Singh, an eye surgeon, trounced Channi by a margin of 7,942 votes from Chamkaur Sahib. Channi represented Chamkaur Sahib thrice.

 

Ugoke, 35, comes from a humble background. His father is a driver, his mother works as a sweeper and he also ran a mobile repair shop.

 

Ugoke joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as a volunteer in 2013.

8:35 PM

AAP headquarters comes to life: Workers celebrate 'Jeet Ki Holi', dance to Punjabi songs

The AAP headquarters at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg here on Thursday reverberated with celebrations as it became clear that the party was headed for a massive win in the Punjab Assembly polls.

 

AAP volunteers and supporters danced to the beats of dhol and Punjabi songs, distributed sweets and showered flower petals as party supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal entered the party office.

 

It is a victory of honest politics in Punjab. We are celebrating 'Jeet Ki Holi' (Holi of victory), Mankeerat Singh, a party volunteer from Punjab, said as he threw colour in the air.

 

Elated AAP supporters took selfies and garlanded AAP leaders present at the party headquarters.

8:33 PM

Punjab poll results signal 'endgame' for Congress: Ashwani Kumar

Former Congress leader Ashwani Kumar, who quit the party ahead of the Punjab Assembly polls, on Thursday said the state election results signal the "endgame" for the grand old party and the emergence of an alternative political narrative in the country.

 

He said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) are the principal engines of this alternative political narrative and hoped that this is the beginning of a new and refreshing politics that is responsive to the sensitivities of the people.

 

According to trends available at 2 pm, the AAP was leading in 91 out of the 117 assembly seats in Punjab.

 

The trends indicated that the ruling Congress has been decimated in Punjab, while the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), which contested the polls in alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), has failed to make much impact.

8:27 PM

Punjab Election results 2022 LIVE: SSM fails to make mark in Punjab polls

The Sanyukt Samaj Morcha, a political outfit of several farmer bodies, failed to make an impact in the political space during the 2022 Punjab assembly polls.

 

Farmer leader Balbir Singh Rajewal-led SSM could not win any seat in Punjab where the AAP appeared set to register a comprehensive victory.

 

Euphoric over the success of their 'morcha', which continued for over a year at Delhi borders against the Centre's now-repealed three farm laws, several farm groups had decided last December to take the electoral plunge to bring about a political change.

 

They fought the February 20 polls in alliance with Haryana Bharatiya Kisan Union (Chaduni) leader Gurnam Singh Chaduni-led Sanyukt Sangharsh Party.

8:10 PM

Change is unavoidable if we need to succeed: Shashi Tharoor as Congress' poor run continues

As Congress' poor run continued in the Assembly elections across five states, Shashi Tharoor said, "One thing is clear - Change is unavoidable if we need to succeed." Taking to Twitter, he wrote:  "All of us who believe in Congress are hurting from the results of the recent assembly elections. It is time to reaffirm the idea of India that the Congress has stood for and the positive agenda it offers the nation — and to reform our organisational leadership in a manner that will reignite those ideas and inspire the people. One thing is clear - Change is unavoidable if we need to succeed."

 

6:51 PM

Punjab Election results 2022 LIVE: AAP wins 90 seats, leads in 2

Punjab Election results 2022 LIVE: AAP wins 90 seats, leads in 2

6:25 PM

Uttarakhand election result 2022: Harish Rawat takes responsibility for Congress debacle

Harish Rawat takes responsibility for Congress debacle in Uttarakhand, says party's campaign strategy was 'insufficient'

6:23 PM

Punjab election result 2022 LIVE: Sukhbir Badal defeated from Jalalabad seat by AAP rival

Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal lost to AAP's Jagdeep Kamboj from Jalalabad seat in Punjab's Fazilka district, according to poll results declared on Thursday.

 

Sukhbir, the son of former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, lost by a margin of 30,930 votes.

 

Notably, Sukhbir who is SAD MP from Ferozepur, had entered the fray from Jalalabad assembly constituency.

 

Sukhbir has earlier been a three-time legislator.

6:15 PM

Punjab Election results 2022 LIVE: It's people's victory. Youth has brought a new Inquilab, says AAP

It's people's victory. Youth has brought a new Inquilab. From the first day onwards, people walked along with me and supported me: AAP's Gurmeet Singh Khudian on defeating SAD patron and former Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal from Lambi seat

6:09 PM

Amarinder Singh: Fails big time in Punjab polls, so does party which humiliated' him

Amarinder Singh failed spectacularly in these assembly elections his new party failed to open its account, his ally BJP fell flat and he failed to even win his own constituency.

 

But there might be some consolation for the former chief minister. The Congress, with which he had a bitter parting just months back, hasn't done too well either in the state, swept by an Aam Aadmi Party wave.

 

The 2022 Punjab Assembly polls came as a fresh challenge for two-time chief minister, who was unseated from his post last year following a bitter power tussle with state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu.

 

The 79-year-old leader said he was humiliated and warned of repercussions then.

 

Soon, he launched the Punjab Lok Congress, contesting the polls in alliance with the BJP, a party whose expansion in the state he had once stalled despite a Narendra Modi wave elsewhere in the Lok Sabha polls.

 

Once considered close to the Gandhi family, Amarinder Singh did not mince words while leaving the party, and called Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra "inexperienced".

5:40 PM

AAP's victory an indictment of political establishment: Yogendra Yadav

Swaraj India president and former AAP leader Yogendra Yadav on Thursday termed the Arvind Kejriwal-led party's performance in Punjab as "spectacular and extraordinary", but said it's more "an indictment" of the "entire political establishment" rather than the success of a party in the electoral battle.

 

Speaking to PTI, he said people of the state have given their mandate to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as it managed to present itself as the "only visible political alternative".

 

He also listed five key challenges that the AAP may have to face after coming to power in the state, saying the party will have to understand "federalism and respect regional sentiments" as Punjab has always "detested" central control and rejected the control of "Dilli Darbar".

 

The AAP is 'Dilli Darbar' and it is controlled by Delhi, he said.

 

"Needles to say their success in Punjab is spectacular, extraordinary. The real question is whether it is the success of Aam Aadmi Party or the failure of the entire political establishment," Yadav said.

4:56 PM

Punjab Election results 2022 LIVE: Gurpreet Gogi declared winner from Ludhiana West by a margin of 7512 votes

Punjab Election results 2022 LIVE: Gurpreet Gogi declared winner from Ludhiana West by a margin of 7512 votes

4:37 PM

Punjab election result 2022 LIVE updates: SAD patriarch Parkash Singh Badal defeated from Lambi

SAD patriarch and former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal lost to AAP's Gurmeet Singh Khudian from his traditional Lambi seat in Punjab's Muktsar district, according to results declared on Thursday.
 

Badal, 94, the oldest candidate in the fray, was defeated by Khudian by a margin of 11,396 votes.
 

The Aam Aadmi Party is heading for a landslide victory in Punjab.

4:32 PM

Punjab Election results 2022 LIVE: Charanjit Singh Channi accepts defeat, congratulates AAP and Bhagwant Mann