Ludhiana, June 23, 2025 (Yes Punjab News)
AAP’s Sanjiv Arora is leading by a comfortable margin over his nearest rival and Congress candidate Bharat Bhushan Ashu and BJP’s Jiwan Gupta.
Interestingly, BJP’s Jiwan Gupta is also performing well. After third round he jumped from the third spot to second spot.
SAD candidate Parupkar Singh Ghuman, Advocate stands fourth in this high stakes bypoll.
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35179 – AAP – Sanjiv Arora
24542 – Congress – Bharat Bhushan Ashu
20323 – BJP – Jiwan Gupta
08203 – SAD – Parupkar Singh Ghuman
Sanjeev Arora wubs by a margin of 10637 votes.
The polling for the lone seat was held on June 19, which saw 51.33 per cent voting out of 1.74 lakh electorates. The seat fell vacant after the death of AAP MLA Gurpreet Bassi Gogi in January.
The state ruling Aam Aadmi Party is eyeing to retain the seat, while the main Opposition Congress is aiming to win back the seat that it had represented six times.
In total, 14 candidates are in the fray for the urban seat. The BJP and the Shiromani Akali Dal have also fielded candidates for the seat.
The main contest largely seems between AAP’s candidate Sanjeev Arora, the party’s Rajya Sabha member and local industrialist, Congress’ former Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu, who represented the seat twice from 2012.
Ashu was defeated by his friend-turned-foe Gogi, 58, by a margin of 7,512 votes in the 2022 Assembly poll.
In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP polled the highest number of votes from the Ludhiana (West) segment. By fielding the Rajya Sabha MP, speculations in political circles are rife that AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal, who’s active in the state politics after facing humiliating defeat not only of his party but his bastion in Delhi Assembly elections, is going to the Rajya Sabha in his place in case Sanjeev Arora wins the bypoll.
However, the party denies that Kejriwal is moving to the Rajya Sabha.
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