Hours after curtains on campaign, Rahul Gandhi reaches Golden Temple, perfroms seva

Bypolls to the Gidderbaha, Dera Baba Nanak, Chabbewal (SC) and Barnala Assembly seats volition beryllium held connected November 20 from 7 americium to 6 pm, and the results volition beryllium retired connected November 23. The bypolls were necessitated aft the MLAs representing the seats were elected to the Lok Sabha successful the wide elections held earlier this year. Three of the 4 seats — Gidderbaha, Dera Baba Nanak and Chabbewal — were held by the Congress, portion the Aam Aadmi Party represented Barnala.

Gandhi, who paid obeisance astatine the sanctum sanctorum and astatine Akal Takht Sahib, refused to marque immoderate governmental comments.

Incidentally, Congress is facing a pugnacious contention successful its accepted seats Gidderbaha and Dera Baba Nanak portion the ruling AAP seems to person an borderline successful Barnala and Chabbewal.

The Congress precocious bid remained distant from the predetermination run that came to extremity successful the evening with each parties making last-ditch efforts to mobilise enactment for their respective candidates.

The bypolls volition determine the fates of immoderate cardinal contestants, including BJP nominee and erstwhile Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal, Congress’ Amrita Warring and Jatinder Kaur, AAP’s Hardeep Singh ‘Dimpy’ Dhillon, Ishank Kumar Chabbewal, on with Kewal Singh Dhillon, Sohan Singh Thandal and Ravikaran Singh Kahlon of the BJP.

Amrita Warring is the woman of Punjab Congress main and Ludhiana MP Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, portion Jaitinder Kaur is the spouse of Gurdaspur MP and erstwhile Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa.

In Gidderbaha, Amrita Warring is locked successful a keenly-watched contention with BJP’s Manpreet Badal and AAP’s Hardeep Dhillon.

On the past time of campaigning successful Gidderbaha, Raja Warring, who represented the spot successful 2012, 2017 and 2022, took retired a roadshow successful enactment of his woman Amrita Warring which was joined by Balkaur Singh, the begetter of vocalist Sidhu Moosewala who was murdered successful May 2022.

AAP’s Hardeep Dhillon besides took retired a roadshow successful Gidderbaha, which was joined by Cabinet ministers Aman Arora and Gurmeet Singh Khuddian.

Congress’ Jatinder Kaur, who is contesting the Dera Baba Nanak spot earlier represented by her hubby Sukhjinder Randhawa, is up against AAP’s Gurdeep Singh Randhawa and Ravikaran Singh Kahlon of the BJP.

AAP’s Ishank Chabbewal, Congress nominee Ranjit Kumar, and BJP’s Sohan Singh Thandal are locked successful a triangular contention successful Chabbewal, an SC reserved seat.

Ishank is the lad of AAP MP from Hoshiarpur, Raj Kumar Chabbewal.

Barnala is besides witnessing a triangular contention betwixt AAP’s Harinder Singh Dhaliwal, Kuldeep Singh Dhillon of the Congress, and BJP’s Kewal Singh Dhillon.

The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has opted to enactment distant from the bypolls aft Sukhbir Singh Badal, who has since resigned arsenic the SAD chief, failed to get immoderate impermanent alleviation from the Akal Takht which declared him ‘tankhaiya’ (person blameworthy of spiritual misconduct) for the “mistakes” committed by his enactment and the authorities tally by it from 2007 to 2017.

During canvassing, the AAP focused its canvass run connected the works done by the Bhagwant Mann authorities implicit the past two-and-half years.

The main curate spearheaded the party’s predetermination run successful the 4 Assembly segments, listing retired his government’s achievements, including escaped energy to home consumers, opening of ‘Aam Aadmi Clinics’ and providing 48,000 authorities jobs connected merit basis.

AAP nationalist convenor and erstwhile Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal besides held nationalist meetings successful the 4 seats, seeking people’s blessings for his party’s nominees for the byelections.

State ministers and MLAs were besides deputed successful these constituencies to garner enactment for the AAP nominees.
The Congress successful its run took connected the AAP authorities connected galore issues, including alleged deteriorating instrumentality and order, “failure” to conscionable its canvass committedness of giving Rs 1,000 per period to women, “tardy” paddy procurement forcing farmers to look hardships successful ‘mandis’, and the cause menace.

Leader of Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa, erstwhile main curate and Lok Sabha MP Charanjit Singh Channi, MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira, erstwhile curate Vijay Inder Singla, and MLA Rana Gurjeet Singh canvassed extensively for the Congress candidates.

For the BJP, Union curate Ravneet Singh Bittu, party’s nationalist wide caput Tarun Chugh, erstwhile Union curate Anurag Thakur, authorities in-charge and erstwhile Gujarat main curate Vijay Rupani, MLA Ashwani Sharma and different enactment leaders campaigned for the nominees.

Bittu, who led the party’s run successful the 4 Assembly segments, targeted the AAP authorities implicit the delayed paddy lifting, calling it an “ineffective” dispensation.

The BJP leaders besides reiterated the party’s committedness to code the concerns of the radical of Punjab by efficaciously gathering their expectations.

A full of 45 candidates, including 3 women, are successful the fray for the bypolls successful which 6.96 lakh voters are eligible to workout their franchise astatine 831 polling stations, officials said.

In the 117-member Punjab Assembly, the AAP presently has 91 legislators, Congress 15, SAD 3, BJP 2, Bahujan Samaj Party 1, and 1 Independent MLA.