Just 3 seats won, 4 of 5 ministers & 3 MLAs defeated, what Punjab verdict means for Bhagwant Mann

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Chandigarh: The ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann failed its mid-term test Tuesday, winning only three of the states 13 Lok Sabha seats..

Sangrur, Hoshiarpur and Anandpur Sahib are the only seats won by AAP, an INDIA alliance partner, though it contested 22 seats across Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat and Assam..

Apart from Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer, the Punjab sports minister who registered a resounding victory from Sangrur by a margin of 1.72 lakh votes, four other cabinet ministers fielded by AAP and three MLAs lost on their seats, the electorate clearly giving a thumbs down to Manns form of governance...

Dr Rajkumar Chhabewal, who left the Congress ahead of the Lok Sabha elections to join AAP, won from Hoshiarpur with a margin of over 44,000 votes, while the partys chief spokesperson Malwinder Singh Kang won from Anandpur Sahib by over 10,000 votes...

Congress got a major boost in Punjab, winning seven seats and increasing its vote share from almost 23 percent in the 2022 assembly elections to 26.30 percent, the highest for any party in the state this election...

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