Know Your MLAs: 3 AAP candidates, 1 Cong nominee make it to Punjab Assembly in recent bypolls

Hardeep Singh Dimpy Dhillon

Age: 57

Political party: AAP

Constituency: Gidderbaha

AAP campaigner Hardeep Singh Dimpy Dhillon. (Image: ECI website)

Dimpy Dhillon switched from the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) to the AAP connected August 28. He was a portion of the SAD for much than 4 decades.

Earlier, helium unsuccessfully contested the Gidderbaha Assembly spot arsenic an SAD campaigner successful 2017 and 2022. He is an agriculturist and owns Deep Transports, which operates backstage buses connected assorted routes successful and astir Punjab. He graduated from Panjab University, Chandigarh. In 2022, helium mislaid to the Congress’s Amarinder Singh Raja Warring by a constrictive borderline of 1,349 votes, portion helium had mislaid by implicit 16,000 votes to the aforesaid hostile successful 2017.

Dhillon was announced arsenic the AAP campaigner astir 7 weeks aft joining the party. But helium was actively campaigning successful the country anterior to the announcement, arsenic Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann had indicated that helium would beryllium nominated arsenic the Gidderbaha campaigner connected the time of his joining.

Local AAP workers were reportedly disgruntled erstwhile helium joined the party, and galore did not be the lawsuit wherein CM Mann welcomed Dhillon into the party.

Pritpal Sharma, the AAP campaigner who had unsuccessfully contested Gidderbaha successful 2017, resigned from the enactment and switched to the BJP aft Dhillon was declared arsenic the AAP candidate.

Dhillon defeated Amrita Warring by 21,969 votes, a grounds triumph borderline for this constituency. Whereas erstwhile concern curate and BJP campaigner Manpreet Singh Badal could get lone 12,227 votes and mislaid his information deposit. Amrita Warring is the woman of Ludhiana MP and Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring. This spot fell vacant aft sitting Congress MLA Amrinder Warring won from the Ludhiana Lok Sabha seat.

Kuldeep Singh Kala Dhillon

Age: 51

Political party: Indian National Congress

Constituency: Barnala

INC campaigner Kuldeep Singh Kala Dhillon.

Kuldeep Singh Kala Dhillon is overmuch successful the quality arsenic helium is the lone Congress person successful Punjab to person won the bye-elections this time. Kuldeep Dhillon defeated AAP’s Harinder Singh Dhaliwal by 2,157 votes. He has completed Class 10. Kuldeep Dhillon joined authorities successful 2013 aft the decease of his elder member Harinder Singh Sira Dhillon, who was a erstwhile president of the Punjab Youth Congress.

In 2016, helium joined the AAP and was named the party’s Barnala territory president. He adjacent campaigned for then-AAP campaigner Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer successful the 2017 Assembly elections. However, the Congress came backmost to powerfulness successful the authorities and helium soon switched backmost to his aged party.

Locals said Kuldeep Dhillon has remained accessible to them each these years with oregon without holding an important presumption successful the party. Two years ago, helium was appointed the president of the Barnala District Congress Committee.

After his victory, Leader of Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa said, “Kala Dhillon is simply a idiosyncratic who roseate from the grassroots. His transportation with the nationalist made him victorious.”

Dr Ishank Chabbewal

Age: 31

Political party: AAP

Constituency: Chabbewal (SC)

AAP campaigner Dr Ishank Chabbewal. (Image: ECI website)

He is the lad of AAP Hoshiarpur MP Dr Raj Kumar Chabbewal. He completed his MBBS from Ludhiana’s DMCH and is pursuing an MD successful radiology. This was Ishank Chabbewal’s maiden election, which helium won by a grounds borderline of 28,690 against Congress’s Ranjit Kumar. Ishank Chabbewal has remained a halfway committee subordinate of his father’s run since 2017 and is besides portion of the NGO, Koshish, floated by his father. He was progressive successful the constituency and was heard addressing crowds astatine galore societal events overmuch earlier his candidature was declared.

Ishank Chabbewal’s begetter won arsenic a Congress campaigner successful 2017 and 2022 but joined the AAP successful March this year. He, thereafter, won the Hoshiarpur Lok Sabha seat.

Gurdeep Singh Randhawa

Age: 55

Political party: AAP

Constituency: Dera Baba Nanak

AAP campaigner Gurdeep Singh Randhawa. (Image: ECI website)

Gurdeep Singh Randhawa defeated Congress heavyweight Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa’s woman Jatinder Kaur Randhawa by 5,699 votes. He had unsuccessfully contested the 2022 polls from the Dera Baba Nanak constituency and finished 3rd contempt a beardown AAP question successful Punjab. However, locals said helium did not permission the constituency aft the nonaccomplishment and became much progressive successful the country aft the then-sitting Congress MLA Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa won the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha spot earlier this year. Gurdeep Singh Randhawa is besides the elder vice-chairman of the Punjab Infrastructure Development Board. He started his governmental travel arsenic sarpanch of his autochthonal Shahpur Jajan village.