Jalandhar: The Congress had to face defeat from the Jalandhar parliamentary seat in the by-election caused by the death of party MP Santokh Singh Chowdhary. you candidate Sushil Kumar RinkuA former Congress MLA, who was inducted into the party on April 5, won with a margin of over 58,000 votes.
The AAP leadership was desperate for a win in Jalandhar after losing the Sangrur by-election nearly three months after its landslide victory in last year’s assembly polls.
Prior to this by-election, Jalandhar has traditionally been with the Congress and it lost the seat only four times in the last five decades – in 1977, 1989, 1996 and 1998, when the entire opposition was united and there was a strong wave against the Congress.
What is even more surprising for the Congress is that in the 2022 assembly elections, the party won five of the nine assembly constituencies despite a strong AAP wave across the state. In the assembly election, the caste factor of the then CM Charanjit Singh Channi worked for the Congress in Jalandhar, which has a high Ad-Dharmi/Ravidasia/Ramadasia community population and Channi belongs to this caste. This time AAP has won seven out of nine assembly seats.
Apparently, apart from factors like 300 units of free electricity, what stood out for AAP in the Congress bastion was its very aggressive campaign and micro-management at the grassroots level as well as the ‘Ikk Mauka’ (one chance) campaign by the AAP convenor. ) had an appeal. Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann 11 months. The ruling party has managed to bring several sarpanches, panchayat members and councilors from other parties into its fold in the last one month.
At the same time the Congress presented a united face but its campaign was far less aggressive and coordinated than that of the AAP and the BJP, even as its local leaders worked on the ground. The Congress was also lagging far behind in using social media for its own benefit.
It is clear from this that after the death of former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, the sympathy factor which Congress was expecting from the death of its sitting MP and Akali Dal will work.
The Shiromani Akali Dal-BSP alliance got the third position. Compared to the 2022 elections, it has lost more than 2,5% of its vote share.
The BJP, which ran a very aggressive campaign with more than half a dozen Union ministers, central leaders and several other leaders joining the campaign, was pushed to the fourth position despite improving its vote share by over three per cent compared to Lost your security deposit. For 2022 assembly elections.
Despite claims of much improvement by the BJP, the result between the SAD and the BJP is as expected because when there was an SAD-BJP alliance, the SAD contested six seats and the BJP three.
The BJP had fielded a Religious Sikh candidate and then used its caste card among Balmiki/Religious Sikh voters. This factor was playing out in the by-election. The Balmikis have traditionally been a strong voter base of the Congress. Some increase in BJP’s vote share makes it clear that BJP made inroads in the community, which could work unfavourably for Congress.
The AAP leadership was desperate for a win in Jalandhar after losing the Sangrur by-election nearly three months after its landslide victory in last year’s assembly polls.
Prior to this by-election, Jalandhar has traditionally been with the Congress and it lost the seat only four times in the last five decades – in 1977, 1989, 1996 and 1998, when the entire opposition was united and there was a strong wave against the Congress.
What is even more surprising for the Congress is that in the 2022 assembly elections, the party won five of the nine assembly constituencies despite a strong AAP wave across the state. In the assembly election, the caste factor of the then CM Charanjit Singh Channi worked for the Congress in Jalandhar, which has a high Ad-Dharmi/Ravidasia/Ramadasia community population and Channi belongs to this caste. This time AAP has won seven out of nine assembly seats.
Apparently, apart from factors like 300 units of free electricity, what stood out for AAP in the Congress bastion was its very aggressive campaign and micro-management at the grassroots level as well as the ‘Ikk Mauka’ (one chance) campaign by the AAP convenor. ) had an appeal. Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann 11 months. The ruling party has managed to bring several sarpanches, panchayat members and councilors from other parties into its fold in the last one month.
At the same time the Congress presented a united face but its campaign was far less aggressive and coordinated than that of the AAP and the BJP, even as its local leaders worked on the ground. The Congress was also lagging far behind in using social media for its own benefit.
It is clear from this that after the death of former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, the sympathy factor which Congress was expecting from the death of its sitting MP and Akali Dal will work.
The Shiromani Akali Dal-BSP alliance got the third position. Compared to the 2022 elections, it has lost more than 2,5% of its vote share.
The BJP, which ran a very aggressive campaign with more than half a dozen Union ministers, central leaders and several other leaders joining the campaign, was pushed to the fourth position despite improving its vote share by over three per cent compared to Lost your security deposit. For 2022 assembly elections.
Despite claims of much improvement by the BJP, the result between the SAD and the BJP is as expected because when there was an SAD-BJP alliance, the SAD contested six seats and the BJP three.
The BJP had fielded a Religious Sikh candidate and then used its caste card among Balmiki/Religious Sikh voters. This factor was playing out in the by-election. The Balmikis have traditionally been a strong voter base of the Congress. Some increase in BJP’s vote share makes it clear that BJP made inroads in the community, which could work unfavourably for Congress.