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Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in Punjab, which are slated to be held on June 1, the Political Landscape in Punjab has changed drastically and is expected that more changes will be seen before the polling takes place.
So far only Bhartiya Janta Party has announced its candidate from the Jalandhar seat, who is further an AAP turncoat. Sushil Kumar Rinku, who is now BJP’s choice for Jalandhar was Aam Aadmi party’s Candidate for the seat. Rinku’s name for the seat was announced in AAP’s first list but Rinku Chose BJP over AAP and joined the saffron party along with another MLA from Jalandhar.
If talk about Congress, then it is said that the party can prefer the face of former CM Charanjit Singh Channi over Karamjit Kaur in Jalandhar as it suits the caste-based scenario of the seat. Channi became popular after he replaced Captain Amrinder Singh as CM of Punjab. Lately, Channi held meetings with party workers in Jalandhar. He also celebrated his birthday and what fueled speculations of Channi’s candidature from Jalandhar was cake titled, ‘Saada Channi Jalandhar’.
Other prominent parties who earlier in previous elections have given fierce electoral battle , namely SAD, BSP are yet to disclose the names of their candidates.
Take a look at past Lok Sabha elections
2023 By-election
Following the untimely death of Congress MP Santokh Singh Chaudhary during Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Rahul Gandhi in January, by elections were held in May for the Jalandhar seat. In order to take advantage emotionally and politically, Congress fielded Santokh Singh’s wife Karamjit Kaur in the election. She fought against ruling AAP’s candidate Sushil Kumar Rinku and despite having emotional and sympathy factor in her favour, she lost the Jalandhar seat to Rinku.
Sushil Kumar Rinku got 3,02,279 votes whereas Karamjit Kaur of congress got 2,43,588 votes in hr favour. The other prime contenders were Dr. Sukhwinder Kumar Sukhi of SAD who got 1,58,445 votes and Inder Iqbal Singh Atwal of BJP got 1,34,800 votes in his favour.
2019
In 2019 elections, Congress maintained its hold on the Jalandhar seat. Santokh Singh Chaudhary of Congress maintained his hold and won the seat with 3,85,712 votes which accounts for 37.9% vote share. At second place was Charanjit Singh Atwal of Shiromani Akali Dal who got 3,66,221 votes. Justice (Retd.) Jora Singh contested election from the ticket of Aam Aadmi Party and got just 25,467 votes. Chaudhary in 2019, become MP second time straight from the Jalandhar seat. Earlier he had won 2014 Lok Sabha elections too.
2014
Validating its foothold, Congress won the Jalandhar Lok Sabha seat in 2014 elections. Congress Candidate Santokh Singh Chaudhary won Jalandhar seat and became member of parliament for the first time. As per the 2014 mandate, he received 3,80,479 votes whereas his rival Pawan Kumar from Shiromani Akali Dal won 3,09,498 votes in the election. Aam Aadmi Party fielded Jyoti Mann on Jalandhar seat who also managed to get votes over 2 lakhs.
2009
The 2009 election was between Congress and SAD. Congress leader Mohinder Singh Kaypee emerged victorious by securing record number of 4,08,103 votes whereas Hans Raj Hans who contested on the ticket of Shiromani Akali Dal got 3,71,658 votes. Surjit Singh of BSP gained 93,592 votes.
It should be noted that Hans Raj Hans later joined BJP and fought Lok Sabha election from Delhi. This time, Hans Raj Hans has been fielded from Faridkot seat against Karamjit Anmol of AAP.
2004
During 2004 election, Rana Gurjit Singh of Indian National Congress emerged victorious by securing 3,44,619 votes. Naresh Gujral of Shiromani Akali Dal also got as high as 3,11,156 votes during the 2004 elections and remained at the second spot. Naresh Gujral of SAD lost to INC candidate by 33463 votes. Third place was secured by Devi Dass Nahar of Bahujan Samaj party who managed to get 69,188 votes.
