AAP LOST CM MANN’s SEAT TO SAD

Chandigarh(The Quiver) : On Sunday,The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) faced a hitting defeat in the Punjab by-elections as the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) candidate Simranjit Singh Mann defeated the ruling party’s candidate on a Lok Sabha seat held last by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann. This defeat led AAP to have no MP in the lower house of parliament(Lok Sabha).
Simranjit Singh Mann beat his AAP rival Gurmail Singh by a margin of over 5,800 votes from the Sangrur Lok Sabha seat, after a close fight between the two.

The 77-year-old Simranjit Singh Mann  is a former MP and the president of Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) . He is known to be a supporter of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala who was shot dead by gangsters last month.

Simranjit Singh dedicated his victory to the people of Sangrur, to late actor-activist Deep Sidhu and Moose Wala, “who gave their blood for the Sikh community”.

“This will have repercussions on India’s politics. Many used to laugh and say ‘what will Simranjit Singh Mann do’. They have been proved wrong today,” Simranjit Mann said.

Sixteen candidates had appeared for the contest on June 23. Congress’s Dalvir Singh Goldy, BJP’s Kewal Dhillon and the Akali Dal’s Kamaldeep Kaur Rajoana were at the third, fourth and fifth spots, respectively in the results.The bypoll was necessitated due to the resignation of Bhagwant Mann from the Lok Sabha seat after he was elected as an MLA in the state assembly elections earlier this year.