AAP leading in Jalandhar Bypoll, Congress trailing
AAP had, as of 11:40 am, 2,43,285 votes, as it steadily widened the gap with Congress which had 1,94,805 votes. BJP was third with 1,20,913 votes, and the Akali-BSP combine in fourth place with 1,13,534 votes.
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Jalandhar, May 13: The Aam Aadmi Party has raced ahead in Jalandhar's four-cornered Lok Sabha by-poll, the latest trends from the counting of votes showed. Sushil Kumar Rinku, a former Congress MLA from the Jalandhar West constituency in the previous assembly who switched to AAP, is ahead of his closest rival, Congress's Karamjit Kaur, the wife of Santokh Chaudhary, whose death during the Bharat Jodo Yatra necessitated the by-poll, by over 49,000 votes.
AAP had, as of 11:40 am, 2,43,285 votes, as it steadily widened the gap with Congress which had 1,94,805 votes. BJP was third with 1,20,913 votes, and the Akali-BSP combine in fourth place with 1,13,534 votes.
VIDEO | Jalandhar bypoll results: AAP workers celebrate as party candidate Sushil Kumar Rinku leads in early trends. pic.twitter.com/c8OYnqEhp7
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BJP has fielded Inder Iqbal Singh Atwal, a Dalit Sikh, who quit the Shiromani Akali Dal to join the saffron party. Shiromani Akali Dal's Sukhwinder Kumar Sukhi is being backed by the BSP. The Jalandhar seat fell vacant after the death of Congress MP Santokh Singh Chaudhary. He suffered a cardiac arrest during the party's Bharat Jodo Yatra in Jalandhar's Phillaur in January this year.
Counting for four assembly seats -- Suar and Chhanbey in Uttar Pradesh, Jharsuguda in Odisha, and Sohiong in Meghalaya -- is also being held today along with the one Lok Sabha seat in Punjab.