SAD-BJP headed for repeat win in Punjab

The SAD-BJP combine on Tuesday took a march over the Congress according to trends in Punjab polls with the ruling combine winning five seats and the Congress bagging another five out of 117-seat constituency.

In the trends available for the remaining 107 seats so far, SAD-BJP combine is ahead in 61 seats, while Congress is leading in 43 seats. Independents are leading in three seats.

As per the results, Punjab Congress President Capt Amarinder Singh has won from his Patiala Urban constituency by a margin of 42,318 votes, defeating SAD’s Surjit Singh Kohli.

Navjot Kaur, wife of BJP MP from Amritsar Navjot Singh Sidhu, has won from Amritsar (East) constituency, defeating her nearest rival and Independent candidate Simarpreet Kaur by a margin of 7,099 votes.

From Balachaur constituency, SAD’s Nand Lal beat Shiv Ram Singh of BSP by a margin of 14,857 votes, while from Rajpura seat Hardial Singh Kamboj of Congress beat BJP’s Raj Khurana by a margin of 31,510 votes.
From Faridkot, SAD’s Deep Malhotra beat Avtar Singh Brar of the Congress by a margin of 2,727 votes and SAD’s Harpreet Kaur beat Madan Lal Jalalpur of Congress by a margin of 1,778 votes from Ghanaur.

Sadhu Singh of Congress won from Nabha (SC) constituency defeating his nearest SAD rival by a margin of 22,548 votes.

Congress’ Jeet Mohinder Singh Sidhu bagged the Talwandi Sabo assembly seat, while O P Soni of Congress won from Amritsar Central, defeating his nearest rival Tarun Chugh of the BJP by a margin of 12,797 votes.

SAD’s Nand Lal beat Shiv Ram Singh of BSP by a margin of 14,857 votes from Balachaur assembly constituency, while Gulzar Singh Ranike of SAD beat Tarsem Singh of the Congress by a margin of 4,983 votes from Attari (SC) seat.

From Maur Assembly segment in Faridkot, Punjab Minister Janmeja Singh Sekhon of SAD defeated Mangat Rai Bansal of Congress by a margin of 1,387 votes. PPP President Manpreet Singh Badal finished at number three.

Manpreet is also contesting from Gidderbaha, the constituency which he has represented on four occasions, but from there too he was trailing, according to the available trends.

From Jaitu (SC) seat, Joginder Singh of Congress defeated Gurinder Singh of SAD by 6,342 votes.

From Dakha, Manpreet Singh of SAD defeated Jasbir Singh Khangura of Congress by a margin of 16,338 votes.

Harmeet Singh Sandhu retained his Tarn Taran seat defeating Congress’ Dharamvir Agnihotri by a margin of 4,621 votes.