Punjab Assembly Election Results: There were 1,304 candidates in the contest. (file)
The results of the elections held on February 20 for the 117-seat assembly of Punjab are being declared today. The state, which has over 2.14 crore eligible voters, recorded 71.95 per cent turnout, down from 77 per cent recorded in 2017. There were 1,304 candidates in the competition.
With Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi-led Congress eyeing to come to power for the second time in a row, the biggest challenge is Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). a exit polls In Punjab it shows that AAP will be the single largest party in the state. But exit polls are not always accurate.
Meanwhile, the BJP contested the elections in alliance with the Punjab Lok Congress, which was founded by former chief minister Amarinder Singh after a dramatic exit from the Congress over a power struggle with state party chief Navjot Singh Sidhu.
Congress chief ministerial candidate Charanjit Singh Channi was projected as the candidate for the top post after Amarinder Singh was ousted. He is also the Dalit Sikh face of the party. Congress had won the 2017 election with 77 seats.
AAP, which came second in the 2017 election winning 20 seats, had proposed Bhagwant Mann for its chief minister’s post, which it called ‘televote’.
Meanwhile, the Shiromani Akali Dal has forged an alliance with Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party as it has severed ties with the BJP over the now defunct agricultural laws. The Akali Dal-BJP alliance had won 18 seats in the last election.
Akali Dal’s Bikram Singh Majithia, who is facing a drugs case, had contested against Navjot Sidhu of the Congress in the Amritsar East constituency, the only high-profile clash in the state this year. Meanwhile, Charanjit Singh Channi contested from Chamkaur Sahib. Amarinder Singh contested from Patiala Urban.
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