Assembly election results 2022: How the everyman made AAP history

The Aam Aadmi Party won the Assembly elections in Punjab long governed by the Congress with remarkable performances particularly of its five candidates who defeated some heavyweights in the state All five winnersmdashJeevan Jyot Kaur Ajitpal Singh Kohli Labh Singh Ugoke Dr Charanjit Singh and Gurmeet Singh Khudianmdashcome from humble personal and professional backgroundsIllustrationUday MohiteAAP chief Arvind Kejriwal fielded candidates from varied professional backgrounds including ophthalmologist and farmers and some of them are firsttime contestants and winners in an Assembly electionClockwise A combination photo of outgoing CM Charanjit Singh Channi former CM Capt retd Amarinder Singh and Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu who were shown the doors by Punjabrsquos voters PicANIJeevan Jyot Kaur Ajitpal Singh Kohli Labh Singh Ugoke Dr Charanjit Singh and Gurmeet Singh Khudian are the five AAP leaders who dealt a massive blow in the polls to prominent heavyweights in Punjabmdashoutgoing chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi former CM Captain retd Amarinder Singh Punjabrsquos fivetime CM Parkash Singh Badal and state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu Channi lost both the seats he contestedmdashChamkaur Sahib and Bhadaur37000No of votes by which Ugoke defeated CM ChanniDr Charanjit SinghDr Charanjit Singh defeated the outgoing CM Channi in Chamkaur Sahib which the latter had represented for the past three terms The Congress had fielded Channi as the CM candidate apparently to appease sizeable Dalit votes but he lost to Dr Singh an eye surgeon by a margin of 5000 votesAjitpal Singh KohliAjitpal Singh Kohli was up against former CM and Punjab Lok Congress chief Amarinder Singh Congressrsquo Vishnu Sharma and SADrsquos Harpal Juneja in Patiala However Kohli decimated Amarinder Singh by a margin of nearly 20000 votes While Kohli bagged 48104 votes twotime CM Amarinder Singh managed to get only 28231 votes and Juneja stood third with 11835 votes Sharma got only 9871 votesGurmeet Singh KhudianGurmeet Singh Khudian defeated SADrsquos Prakash Singh Badal 94 from Lambi Gurmeet bagged 66313 votes while Badal finished at second position with 54917 votes Gurmeet son of former Faridkot MP Jathedar Jagdev Singh Khuddian left the Congress and joined the AAP last year ldquoItrsquos peoplersquos victory Youth has brought a new Inquilabrdquo he saidLabh Singh UgokeLabh Singh Ugoke who works in a mobile repair shop defeated CM Channi in Bhadaur by over 37000 votes Akali Dalrsquos Satnam Singh stood third with over 21000 votes Ugokersquos mother is a cleaner in a government school and his father works in the fieldsJeevan Jyot KaurJeevan Jyot Kaur a social activist and advocate of menstrual hygiene defeated cricketerturnedpolitician and Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Siddhu in Amritsar East Kaur known as the lsquopad woman of Amritsarrsquo also defeated Shiromani Akali Dalrsquos SAD Bikram Singh Majithia She bagged over 39000 votes whereas sitting MLA Siddhu got over 32000 votes and Majithia the brotherinlaw of SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal got 25188 votes