Punjab Assembly Election Result 2022 Highlights: AAP rules Punjab's 'Mann'; Kejriwal crushes traditional parties in first state poll win

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After the historic victory of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab, Bhagwant Mann on Thursday said the oath-taking of the state's new cabinet would be held in martyr Bhagat Singh's ancestral village.

Rising from the ashes like the phoenix, the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP, in a maiden emphatic win, crushed the traditional players that ruled the border state of Punjab for over seven decades with its stunning victory largely by its greenhorns on 92 of the 117 seats of the legislative assembly.

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. Till some months ago, Charanjit Singh Channi was just another minister in Amarinder Singh’s Congress government. And when the party decided to replace the veteran leader as the chief minister in Punjab, Channi wasn’t even on the list of obvious front-runners.

But after Congress made the surprise decision, Channi took to his new role as CM with enthusiasm, announcing sops, featuring in full-page newspaper advertisements and even participating in a game of hockey.

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. Amarinder Singh failed spectacularly in these assembly elections – his new party failed to open its account, his ally BJP fell flat and he failed to even win his own constituency.

But there might be some consolation for the former chief minister. The Congress, with which he had a bitter parting just months back, hasn’t done too well either in the state, swept by an Aam Aadmi Party wave.

The 2022 Punjab Assembly polls came as a fresh challenge for two-time chief minister, who was unseated from his post last year following a bitter power tussle with state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu.

The 79-year-old leader said he was humiliated and warned of repercussions then.

Soon, he launched the Punjab Lok Congress, contesting the polls in alliance with the BJP, a party whose expansion in the state he had once stalled despite a Narendra Modi wave elsewhere in the Lok Sabha polls.

Once considered close to the Gandhi family, Amarinder Singh did not mince words while leaving the party, and called Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra "inexperienced".

. The BJP's performance in the assembly elections except in Punjab has been on expected lines with the saffron party emerging stronger while the internal bickering cost the Congress very dear in Punjab, said Chirag Paswan, Parliamentarian and president of Lok Janshakti Party (R) here on Thursday. The election results in five state assemblies indicate that the BJP is performing "practically well" except in Punjab, he said.

. The AAP is hopeful of repeating its ‘Punjab-type’ performance in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections, scheduled to be held later this year.

The ruling BJP, on the other hand, maintains that it will retain power in the hill state after its remarkable performances in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

Buoyed with a landslide victory in neighbouring Punjab, Himachal Pradesh Aam Aadmi Party president Anup Kesri told PTI that the people of the state are “fed up” with the traditional political parties.

. He mentioned his name 9 times in the 12 minute speech while made a passing mention of CM designate Bhagwant Mann, who was primarily responsible for AAP’s victory in Punjab. Is he already signalling to AAP MLAs that he is the super CM of Punjab? Malviya asked.

. He promised 500 schools in Delhi, built just one. Promises a hunger free regime, when he couldn’t deliver ration in Delhi, even during Covid. Promised to build medical colleges but hasn’t built even one!Malviya tweeted.

. It is quite an alphabetical victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh.

From 'Y, R, L to M and Y', the BJP has used these issues to break all jinx and ride back to power with a more than comfortable majority for a second consecutive term.

Y, R and L, party sources claim, are the three factors that have unleashed a pro-incumbency wave in the state in favour of the BJP.

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. This year’s Punjab Assembly polls came as a litmus test for Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal as he shouldered the responsibility of steering his 100-year-old party without the active participation of his father and party patriarch Parkash Singh Badal.

Often credited with his party’s victory in the 2012 Assembly polls, now 59, he became the youngest chief of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), when he was elevated to the post in 2008.

His political innings started over two decades ago when he was elected to the Lok Sabha from Faridkot twice in a span of two years and served as the Union minister of state for industry in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. Later, he was Punjab’s deputy chief minister.

This was his first election when he came out of the shadow of his father, who had restricted his public appearances because of his age and the Covid pandemic.

The stakes were high for the Shiromani Akali Dal and Sukhbir Badal was hoping for the revival of his party, which was relegated to the third position in the last Assembly elections, bagging just 15 of the 117 Assembly seats.

. The saffron wave swept four of the five states that went to the polls earlier this year, with the BJP bagging a massive victory in Manipur, Goa and Uttarakhand, and securing a comfortable majority in the Uttar Pradesh elections, albeit smaller than its 2017 mandate. General elections remain a couple of years away but the results declared on March 10 will have far-reaching consequences for national politics.

. The Congress's rout in all the five states in the assembly polls has opened the party to memes and jokes on social media with the best being reserved for its leaders Rahul Gandhi and Navjot Singh Sidhu.

As another state went out of Congress's hand with its chief minister losing both his seats in Punjab, social media users have been relentless in their critique.

"Message is clear and loud, Congress have no other option but to dump 'Gandhi Family' and start afresh otherwise the 'Party' is over," tweeted filmmaker Manish Mundra.

. It's the victory of the people of Punjab. My ticket was announced around Dec 3... Got positive indication during door-to-door campaigns that Punjab has overcome identity politics: AAP's Amritsar East candidate Jeevanjot Kaur on toppling Cong' Sidhu & SAD's Majithia from the seat

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. Amarinder Singh had floated his party after quitting the Congress last year owing to his unceremonious exit as the CM

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. With the BJP set to secure a straight second term in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday appeared to have successfully busted what was dubbed as the "Noida Jinx".

Adityanath also looked set for a victory from Gorakhpur Urban seat while all three BJP candidates in Gautam Buddh Nagar district, appeared set for win, according to poll trends.

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. In the political sphere, a vacuum does not last for long. It helps a new force shoot up and, consequently, change the scenario altogether. In this round of Assembly polls, Punjab has proved this by presenting the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) with a huge victory.

But, the implications of what has happened in Punjab may go far beyond the state. The reasons: the AAP is ambitious, it has the capability to grow in some other states, and the potential to be a 'party with a difference', which anchors itself in a centrist position in the Hindutva versus secular debate, and being born out of Anna Hazare's anti-corruption crusade, works for purifying Indian politics.

. Citing improvement in the Covid-19 situation, the Election Commission on Thursday lifted the ban on victory processions during the counting of votes and declaration of results in the five states where elections were held recently.

The Commission had imposed the ban in April 2021 ahead of the results for assembly polls in Assam, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, West Bengal and Kerala and continued with the restriction for Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Goa and Punjab where elections were held this year.

In a statement, the poll panel said keeping in mind the current status of Covid-19 in these states, it has "decided to relax the guidelines on victory processions during and after the counting and has withdrawn the blanket ban on victory procession."

. In Punjab, Congres presented a new leadership through Charanjit Singh Channi who is son of the soil, but the entire anti-incumbency of 4.5 years under Captain Amarinder Singh could not be overcome and hence people voted for AAP for change: Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala

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. Bhagwant Mann is the man of the moment in Punjab. Winning by a huge margin of over 58,000 votes, the charismatic Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader is set to take his oath as the next Punjab Chief Minister. So, what helped the comedian-turned-politician deliver his perfect punchline in the state's Assembly elections?

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. Bhagat Singh once said if we don't change the system after the British leave, nothing will happen. Sadly in last 75 years, these parties & leaders had the same British system, they were looting the country, no schools/hospitals were made. AAP has changed the system: Arvind Kejriwal

. A Congress tragedy unfolded on Thursday as trends from the counting of votes in five poll-states trickled in, showing that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was on its way to winning in four of them, including Uttar Pradesh, which sends 80 members to the Lok Sabha and Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) winning Punjab for the first time and thereby becoming the only regional party to get power in two states. This phenomenon will worry the principal Opposition party in the long run.

While the BJP may not be sanguine about the emergence of a new challenger in the AAP, its repeat victory in UP in a post-pandemic poll will boost its morale two years before the next Lok Sabha polls. This comes after a year-long farmers' protest had threatened to singe its poll prospects.

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. It is the 'thoko taali' moment for Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab as it stares at a landslide victory, its first-ever win outside the national capital. State Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, who became a reason of embarrassment for his party and was backed regardless, failed to save the day.

However, accepting the voice of the people as the "voice of God", he congratulated AAP on Twitter.

. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has more than impressed in Punjab, blitzing past the rest of the field to take the lead in a whopping 87 seats in the frontier state. The Arvind Kejriwal-helmed outfit's nearest rival, the Congress, leads in a mere 14 seats.

. The Aam Aadmi Party made major gains in Punjab with their successful attempt at sweeping out the Congress government that has been victim to prolonged infighting ever since the exit of former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh.

The following has been a part of their main campaign agenda in a state where they had previously failed to make major inroads in 2017 despite a vigorous campaign that won them 20 seats.

. The story of this edition of Assembly election is the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) – the Arvind Kejriwal-led party that has spread its wing beyond Delhi for the first time with a result in Punjab that catapults its national ambitions to a new height.

After an attempt that fell way behind five years ago, the AAP has finally managed to convince people in Punjab to give them a chance to repeat what they did in the national capital.

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. BJP's lotus blooming, Sawant takes lead by over 300 votes

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. Even as the Aam Aadmi Party is showing a dismal performance in the early trends in two of the three states where it was contesting the Assembly elections, the party leaders in the national capital are rejoicing over the trends in Punjab where it is heading for a comfortable victory.

"These are not the trends of the victory of any party, these are trends of the acceptance of the governance model of the Arvind Kejriwal-led government in Delhi," AAP MLA Dilip Pandey told IANS .

. We had fielded candidates in Goa, Uttarakhand and UP, but somewhere the focus was on Punjab: AAP leader Manish Sisodia on party's performance in Goa & Uttarakhand

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. Atam Nagar, Gill, Jagraon, Khanna, Ludhiana East, Ludhiana North, Ludhiana South, Ludhiana West, Payal, Raikot, Sahnewal and Samrala.

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. The counting of votes for 117 Assembly seats is currently under way in Punjab amid tight security arrangements. Early leads indicated the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is heading to a landslide maiden victory in the state, trailing the traditional parties -- Congress and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD).

Here are some of the key takeaways

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. Today's an important day in India's history, not only because AAP is winning one more state but because it has become a national force. AAP will become Congress' replacement, he said.

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. Aam Aadmi Party: 6,

Shiromani Akali Dal: 2,

Bharatiya Janata Party: 1

Others: 2

. The Election Commission is fully geared up and is capable of holding all the elections simultaneously. We are ready to hold elections only once in 5 years, he added.

. 'Know your candidate' App was a successful initiative by EC. Supreme Court had decided that people with criminal backgrounds should be known to the voters. So, we created this app & out of 6,900 candidates, more than 1,600 were with a criminal background, he added.

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. Postal ballots will be counted first and early trends will start arriving by 10 am.

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. Keeping in mind that forming the government in Punjab may be difficult, the BJP is using this assembly election as a platform to expand its political presence across the state and become a force to reckon with. The party is now independently trying to make inroads in the state and using this election as a launchpad for its expansion in Punjab before the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and the next assembly election in 2027.

. The Aam Aadmi Party is expected to make a splash in the face-off against the Congress and the BJP's alliance with former Congress man Captain Amarinder Singh and the Shiromani Akali Dal. Farmer leaders may also make their mark following their recent success in getting the farm laws repealed.

. Punjabtopped the chart at 59,65,496 litres worth Rs 36.79 crore, followed by Uttar Pradesh (22,94,614 litres worth Rs 62.13 crore), Uttarakhand (97,176 litres worth Rs 4.79 crore), Goa (95,446 litres worth Rs 3.57 crore) and Manipur (74,495 litres worth Rs 73 lakh).

. On the eve of the counting of votes, former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday exuded confidence that the people of Punjab will deliver a positive verdict in favour of his party’s alliance with the BJP and SAD (Sanyukt). After quitting the Congress following his unceremonious exit as the chief minister last year, Singh had launched his own political party -- Punjab Lok Congress -- and stitched an alliance with the BJP and the Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa-led SAD (Sanyukt).

. It is not just the fate of 6,944 candidates in 690 seats that will be known when the counting of votes in five states will be conducted on Thursday but also the future political course in the run-up to 2024 Lok Sabha elections as several parties are waiting with bated breath for the outcome.

. Punjab Election Constituency-wise Result 2022:Party-wise performance, winners and losers

. The stage is set for counting of votes on Thursday for 117 assembly seats in Punjab where the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP has emerged as a major contender while the Congress is seeking to retain power in the multi-cornered contest.

Various exit polls have predicted that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will form the next government in Punjab but a few have also forecast a hung assembly in the state which had witnessed a high-stakes contest on February 20.

Counting of votes will start at 8 am at 117 centres in 66 locations, said Punjab Chief Electoral Officer S Karuna Raju on Wednesday.

A total of 1,304 candidates, including 93 women and two transgenders, were in the fray.

The state recorded voter turnout of 71.95 per cent. It was the lowest percentage as compared to the voting percentage observed in three previous assembly elections.

. As Monday's exit poll numbers suggested an AAP-victory in Punjab, the Congress party would still try to find a silver lining in their Chief Ministerial candidate for the northern state, Charanjit Singh Channi.

Punjab Assembly Election Result 2022 Highlights: AAP rules Punjab's 'Mann'; Kejriwal crushes traditional parties in first state poll win

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