Punjab Election Result 2022: All Badals, Family Evicted From AAP Freshly

All Badals, led by five-time chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, the tallest candidate at 94 for the 117-member Punjab Assembly, as well as his relatives, lost to AAP’s Greenhorn on Thursday.

Badal, the eldest who won the seat for five consecutive terms since 1997, lost to Gurmeet Khuddian from Lambi by 11,357 votes, while his son and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief and MP Sukhbir Badal suffered a humiliating defeat from Jalalabad, and his Son-in-law Adesh Pratap Singh Kairon was defeated by Laljit Singh Bhullar of AAP from Patti in Tarn Taran district.

Sukhbir Badal’s brother-in-law Bikram Majithia and his cousin Manpreet Badal, who were in the fray on a Congress ticket, also lost from their respective seats.

According to the Election Commission, AAP’s Khuddis, who are Congress rebels, got 65,717 votes and the elderly Badal got 54,360 votes.

Junior Badal lost the election from Jalalabad to Jagdeep Kamboj of AAP by a margin of 23,310 votes.

Majithia, contesting from Amritsar (East) seat, secured the third position with 25,112 votes. His staunch and state Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu also lost his seat, getting only 32,807 votes.

Both the senior leaders were defeated by AAP’s newbie Jeevan Jyot Kaur, who got 39,520 votes.

Five-time MLA and two-time finance minister, Manpreet Badal, who is the son of Gurdas Badal, the younger brother of Prakash Badal, lost the election from Bathinda Urban.

He first won from Giddarbaha in 1995 on a SAD ticket and retained the seat in 1997, 2002 and 2007. He left the party in 2010 and formed his own political organisation, the People’s Party of Punjab.

In 2016, Manpreet Badal merged his organization with the Congress, after losing from both Giddadbha and Maur seats. He then won the 2017 election from Bathinda as a Congress candidate.

“We wholeheartedly and with all humility accept the mandate given by Punjabis. I am grateful to lakhs of Punjabis who relied on us and SAD-BSP workers for their selfless hard work. We serve them with humility. Will continue to do the role he has assigned us,” Sukhbir Badal tweeted.

AAP’s chief ministerial candidate Bhagwant Mann, in his first public address after his victory, said: “The elder (elderly) Badal Sahib lost, Sukhbir (Badal) lost from Jalalabad, Capt.Amarinder SinghHe has lost from Patiala, Sidhu and Majithia are also losing, Channi has lost in both the seats.

Congress’ firebrand MLA Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, who retained his Giddarbaha constituency in Muktsar district, said he had been saying that all Badals, including Congress’ Manpreet Singh Badal, were playing a fixed match.

He said that he had asked voters to defeat all Badals including his allies from where he is contesting.

He said, “This Badal is a message to all Badals, a message to Bathinda Wala Badal (Manpreet Badal) and Lambi Wala Badal (Prakash Singh Badal), they are playing a fixed match. In Bathinda, they are with Congress. are and are here.” They are Akalis. Such traitors should be exposed.”

However, Sukhbir Badal was clearly saying that Badal family has no relation with Manpreet Badal and the interests of the party are supreme for him. Even Manpreet Badal had clarified that he had ended all his family ties with the Badal family 11 years ago.

Breaking off two-decade-long ties, the Akali Dal pulled out of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in September 2020 after sharp differences surfaced over three controversial agricultural laws.

The Congress, which was out of power in Punjab for a decade (2007-17), had won 77 seats in the 2017 assembly elections defeating the Akali Dal-BJP alliance.

At that time Badal Badal from Lambi won the assembly election by defeating Congress candidate Amarinder Singh by 22,770 votes.

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