Bhadaur Assembly Election Result 2022: Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi Loses To AAP's Labh Singh

The Bhadaur assembly is a reserved seat, and has an estimated Scheduled Caste population of 31.69 percent. 

Congress leader Charanjit Singh Channi | Photo: Getty

Punjab Assembly Election Result 2022: In another major setback for the Congress, outgoing Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi has lost from Bhadaur seat by 37,558 votes to Aam Aadmi Party's Labh Singh Ugoke.

Charanjit Singh Channi has contested the Punjab Election 2022 from two seats.

Bhadaur in Barnala district is the second reserve seat from where Congress chief ministerial candidate Charanjit Channi contested, besides Chamkaur Sahib.

The Bhadaur assembly is a reserved seat, and has an estimated Scheduled Caste population of 31.69 percent. Satnam Singh Rahi was representing Shiromani Akali Dal on this seat

This was the first time that Channi contested from the seat. Since being elected to the Punjab Legislative Assembly in 2007 from the Chamkaur Sahib seat Channi never contested an election from any other place.

Besides him, Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu on Thursday lost from the Amritsar East assembly seat against AAP's Jeevan Jyot Kaur.

Channi has served as a minister in the Captain Amarinder Singh government. He was also the Leader of Opposition in the state assembly from 2015 to 2016. 

He became the chief minister of Punjab in September last year after Captain Amarinder Singh resigned from the post due to feud with Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu.

The Congress declared Charanjit Singh Channi as the chief ministerial candidate over Navjot Singh Sidhu after feedback from party leaders and workers. The party had also sought public opinion.