Early Times Report
Jammu, May 13: Jammu-based Congress and BJP leaders proved ominous for their respective parties in Punjab where the Aam Aadmi Party candidate won the by-poll from the Jalandhar Lok Sabha constituency which was considered a Congress stronghold for the past 24 years.
Congress and BJP leaders from the Jammu region were deputed by their respective parties to campaign for their candidates.
Inder Iqbal Singh Atwal was the BJP candidate for the Jalandhar Parliamentary by-election while as Karamjit Kour Choudhary was the Congress candidate.
AAP candidate Sushil Kumar Rinku, a former Congress MLA defeated his closest rival, Congress's Karamjit Kaur by a margin of over 58,000 votes, as per the Election Commission of India. Rinku has polled 3,02,279 votes, while Chaudhary has secured 2,43,588 votes.
BJP nominee Inder Iqbal Singh Atwal was at the third spot, while Shiromani Akali Dal candidate Sukhwinder Kumar Sukhi, who is also backed by the Mayawati-led BSP, was at the fourth spot.
Atwal so far polled 1,34,800 votes and Sukhi 1,58,445 votes.
A group of Congress leaders led by former Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand was deputed to help the party candidate.
On April 19, Rajya Sabha member and the AICC secretary incharge of J&K and Ladakh Rajni Patil has written a letter to J&K Congress Committee chief Vikar Rasool Wani and asked him to depute four leaders for bye-election of Jalandhar Lok Sabha seat in Punjab.
Similarly, BJP leaders from Jammu region were also deputed to campaign for the party candidate. |
