Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi Loses From Both Seats In Assembly Elections

Mumbai: Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi has lost from both Chamkaur Sahib and Bhadaur in the Assembly elections. Aam Aadmi Party’s Labh Singh Ugoke has won from the Bhadaur seat as he got over 57,000 votes, while the party’s candidate Charanjit Singh has won from Chamkaur Sahib with 23,000 votes.

In the other seat, Mr Channi got some 50,000 votes, while his nearest rival from the Aam Aadmi Party who has a similar name – Charanjit Singh – got over 54,000 votes.

The Aam Aadmi Party, or AAP, is set to form the government in Punjab, with the lead looking good. This victory will give the Aam Aadmi Party or AAP its first chance to run a full-fledged state unlike Delhi, which is a union territory.

In the 117-member House, AAP is leading in 90 seats, while Congress is leading in 18 seats. Preliminary trends show that BJP has won 2 seats, while Shiromani Akali Dal has won 6 seats.

Congress fought the Punjab elections fighting factionalism. The party changed its chief minister in September last year, even as the party’s new state unit chief Navjot Singh Sidhu hinted at his own chief ministerial ambitions.

The Congress finally declared Mr Channi as the first Dalit Chief Minister of Punjab, endorsing him for the chief ministerial face days before polling on February 20.

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