Within the lately held bye-elections to 4 Meeting seats in Punjab, the ruling Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP) received three and the Congress received one seat.
Hardeep Singh Dimpy Dhillon
Age: 57
Political occasion: AAP
Constituency: Gidderbaha
Dimpy Dhillon switched from the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) to the AAP on August 28. He was part of the SAD for greater than 4 many years.
Earlier, he unsuccessfully contested the Gidderbaha Meeting seat as an SAD candidate in 2017 and 2022. He’s an agriculturist and owns Deep Transports, which operates personal buses on varied routes in and round Punjab. He graduated from Panjab College, Chandigarh. In 2022, he misplaced to the Congress’s Amarinder Singh Raja Warring by a slim margin of 1,349 votes, whereas he had misplaced by over 16,000 votes to the identical opponent in 2017.
Dhillon was introduced because the AAP candidate about seven weeks after becoming a member of the occasion. However he was actively campaigning within the space previous to the announcement, as Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann had indicated that he could be nominated because the Gidderbaha candidate on the day of his becoming a member of.
Native AAP staff had been reportedly disgruntled when he joined the occasion, and plenty of didn’t attend the occasion whereby CM Mann welcomed Dhillon into the occasion.
Pritpal Sharma, the AAP candidate who had unsuccessfully contested Gidderbaha in 2017, resigned from the occasion and switched to the BJP after Dhillon was declared because the AAP candidate.
Dhillon defeated Amrita Warring by 21,969 votes, a document victory margin for this constituency. Whereas former finance minister and BJP candidate Manpreet Singh Badal might get solely 12,227 votes and misplaced his safety deposit. Amrita Warring is the spouse of Ludhiana MP and Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring. This seat fell vacant after sitting Congress MLA Amrinder Warring received from the Ludhiana Lok Sabha seat.
Kuldeep Singh Kala Dhillon
Age: 51
Political occasion: Indian Nationwide Congress
Constituency: Barnala
Kuldeep Singh Kala Dhillon is far within the information as he’s the lone Congress chief in Punjab to have received the bye-elections this time. Kuldeep Dhillon defeated AAP’s Harinder Singh Dhaliwal by 2,157 votes. He has accomplished Class 10. Kuldeep Dhillon joined politics in 2013 after the loss of life of his elder brother Harinder Singh Sira Dhillon, who was a former president of the Punjab Youth Congress.
In 2016, he joined the AAP and was named the occasion’s Barnala district president. He even campaigned for then-AAP candidate Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer within the 2017 Meeting elections. Nonetheless, the Congress got here again to energy within the state and he quickly switched again to his previous occasion.
Locals mentioned Kuldeep Dhillon has remained accessible to all of them these years with or with out holding an essential place within the occasion. Two years in the past, he was appointed the president of the Barnala District Congress Committee.
After his victory, Chief of Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa mentioned, “Kala Dhillon is an individual who rose from the grassroots. His reference to the general public made him victorious.”
Dr Ishank Chabbewal
Age: 31
Political occasion: AAP
Constituency: Chabbewal (SC)
He’s the son of AAP Hoshiarpur MP Dr Raj Kumar Chabbewal. He accomplished his MBBS from Ludhiana’s DMCH and is pursuing an MD in radiology. This was Ishank Chabbewal’s maiden election, which he received by a document margin of 28,690 in opposition to Congress’s Ranjit Kumar. Ishank Chabbewal has remained a core committee member of his father’s marketing campaign since 2017 and can also be a part of the NGO, Koshish, floated by his father. He was lively within the constituency and was heard addressing crowds at many social occasions a lot earlier than his candidature was declared.
Ishank Chabbewal’s father received as a Congress candidate in 2017 and 2022 however joined the AAP in March this 12 months. He, thereafter, received the Hoshiarpur Lok Sabha seat.
Gurdeep Singh Randhawa
Age: 55
Political occasion: AAP
Constituency: Dera Baba Nanak
Gurdeep Singh Randhawa defeated Congress heavyweight Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa’s spouse Jatinder Kaur Randhawa by 5,699 votes. He had unsuccessfully contested the 2022 polls from the Dera Baba Nanak constituency and completed third regardless of a robust AAP wave in Punjab. Nonetheless, locals mentioned he didn’t go away the constituency after the loss and have become extra lively within the space after the then-sitting Congress MLA Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa received the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat earlier this 12 months. Gurdeep Singh Randhawa can also be the senior vice-chairman of the Punjab Infrastructure Growth Board. He began his political journey as sarpanch of his native Shahpur Jajan village.
