AAP got lead in 7 of nine assembly segments
AAP’s vote share jumped to 34.05%, up from 2.5% in the 2019 Lok Sabha election
JALANDHAR With the victory of Sushil Kumar Rinku, the Aam Aadmi Party has breached into the Congress stronghold ending its two decades of supremacy in Doaba politics.
Congress had remained undefeated in this parliamentary constituency since 1999.
AAP gained a significant vote share in all the nine assembly segments under Jalandhar parliamentary constituency convincingly winning seven segments—Adampur, Kartarpur, Nakodar, Jalandhar Cantt, Jalandhar West, Shahkot and
Phillaur. Surprisingly, the BJP remained in lead in two key segments -- Jalandhar Central by 546 votes and Jalandhar North by 1,259 votes. The Jalandhar Central constituency is represented by AAP MLA Raman Arora, while Jalandhar North is represented by Congress
MLA Avtar Singh alias Bawa Henry.
In the 2022 assembly polls, the AAP had managed to make inroads in the Jalandhar constituency but failed to end Congress’
supremacy even with a wave in its favour across the state. In the assembly polls, Congress had won five out of nine segments, while the AAP bagged the remaining seats.
Even in the Phillaur segment, which is considered a traditional bastion of the Chaudhary family presently represented by Congress candidate Karamjit Kaur Chaudhary’s
son Vikramjit Singh Chaudhary, the ruling AAP managed to secure a lead of 6,999 votes.
Rinku took the lead of 9,351 from the Adampur constituency, which is represented by Congress MLA Sukhwinder Singh Kotli, while the lead in the Kartarpur constituency was 10,682 where friction between Chaudhary clan seems to have dented Congress’ prospects.
In Nakodar, the AAP candidate Sushil Kumar Rinku got a lead of 5,306 votes as it faced main competition from the SAD contestant from this segment.
In Jalandhar Cantt, represented by Congress MLA Pargat Singh, the AAP got a lead of 6,995 votes.
In Jalandhar West, Sushil Kumar Rinku ’s lead swelled by 9,467 votes, while AAP won Shahkot by a thin margin of 273 votes.