Punjab Assembly Election Result 2022: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief ministerial candidate Bhagwant Mann has won the Dhuri assembly constituency with a thumping majority. Mann has defeated Congress leader Dalvir Singh Goldy by a margin of 58,206 votes.
The AAP CM candidate got more than 78 thousand votes in the Dhuri assembly seat, which was a stronghold of the Congress party since 2012.
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Mann, was a two-term sitting MP from the state's Sangrur parliamentary constituency. He joined the AAP in 2014 and is the head of AAP's Punjab unit.
Mann was declared the chief ministerial candidate by AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal after a televoting was conducted to ask voters their favourite choice for the top post.
More than 93 percent of the votes cast through phone and WhatsApp, went in favour of Bhagwant Mann.
Today, the early trends indicated that the ruling Congress has been decimated in Punjab while the SAD, which contested the polls in alliance with the BSP, has failed to make much impact.
Among those who were trailing in early trends included Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi. Channi is trailing from his seat Chamakur Sahib, from where he is sitting MLA as well as Bhadaur, the second seat from where he had entered the fray.
Former Chief Ministers Parkash Singh Badal, Amarinder Singh, and Rajinder Kaur Bhattal were also trailing, early trends showed.
SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal was also behind his nearest rival and AAP candidate Jagdeep Kamboj in his Jalalabad seat.
Election for the 117 member Punjab assembly was held in a single phase on February 20. The Election Commission had initially announced February 14 as the polling date, but it was rescheduled after demand by political parties seeking change in view of Guru Ravi Das Jayanti, on February 16.
(With Agency Inputs)