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The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday wrested the Jalandhar Lok Sabha seat from the Congress in a high-stakes bypoll, ending the grand old partys unbeaten run in the Dalit stronghold since 1999...
AAPs Sushil Kumar Rinku won against Congresss Karamjit Kaur, the wife of two-time MP Santokh Singh Chaudhary whose death had necessitated the bypoll, with a margin of 58,691 votes..
Rinku, who joined the AAP after quitting the Congress ahead of the byelection, polled 3,02,279 votes while Chaudhary secured 2,43,588 votes, as per the Election Commission data...
Even a united face did not help the Congress while Rinku, despite not having a base among Jalandhar voters, remained ahead in all rounds of the counting and polled 3,02,097 votes, including 182 postal votes, with a 34.05 per cent vote share a huge improvement from the AAPs 2.5 per cent vote share in the 2019 Lok Sabha election...
Surprisingly the BJP remained ahead of its former ally SAD in several round and finished fourth with 1,34,800 votes (15.19 per cent) in its first solo fight in the Lok Sabha constituency by registering number one position in two assembly segments...
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