It’s Congress’ Development Claims Vs AAP’s Future Promises In Ludhiana East. Whom Will Voters Trust?

Punjab Assembly Election 2022: In 2017, Sanjeev Talwar of Indian National Congress won the seat by defeating Daljit Singh Grewal (Bhola) from Aam Aadmi Party with a margin of 1581 votes.

Ludhiana East Constituency, Punjab: The Ludhiana East constituency witnessed a very interesting contest among candidates in 2017 assembly polls, where Congress candidate Sanjay Talwar managed to sail through by defeating Daljit Grewal of AAP with a narrow margin of 1581 votes. This year, the Ludhiana East Constituency will go to polls on February 20 and the results will be announced on March 10. In 2017, Sanjeev Talwar of Indian National Congress won the seat by defeating Daljit Singh Grewal (Bhola) from Aam Aadmi Party with a margin of 1581 votes. Ludhiana East Assembly constituency is one of the 117 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Punjab and falls under the Ludhiana Lok sabha constituency.

Candidates for the 2022 Assembly Elections:

Sanjeev Talwar: INC
Jagmohan Sharma: PLC
Ranjit Singh Dhillon: SAD
Daljit Singh ‘Bhola’ Grewal: AAP

Here’s the complete schedule for Punjab Assembly Polls:

Issue of notification: January 21
Last date of notification: January 28
Scrutiny of nomination: January 29
Last date of withdrawal of candidature: January 31
Date of poll: February 20
Counting of votes: March 10

2017 Punjab Assembly Election:

In the 2017 Punjab Assembly polls, Congress won an absolute majority in the state by winning 77 seats and ousted the Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party government after 10 years. In a major highlight of the polls, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) emerged as the second-largest as it won 20 seats in 117-member Punjab Legislative Assembly.

2019 Lok Sabha Elections:

In 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Indian National Congress candidate Ravneet Singh Bittu won from Ludhiana Lok Sabha (MP) Seat with the margin of 76372 votes by defeating Simarjeet Singh Bains from Lok Insaaf Party.

LUDHIANA EAST ASSEMBLY ELECTION RESULTS (2017)

Candidate’s Name	Party	Level	Votes	Vote Rate %	Margin
Sanjeev Talwar	INC	Winner	43,010	33.03%	1,581
Daljit Singh Grewal (bhola)	AAP	Runner Up	41,429	31.82%
Ranjit Singh Dhillon	SAD	3^rd	41,313	31.73%
Gurpreet Singh	BSP	4^th	2,076	1.59%
None Of The Above	NOTA	5^th	1,067	0.82%
Jaswant Singh Cheema	SAD(M)	6^th	659	0.51%
Hardeep Singh (bawa)	TMC	7^th	371	0.28%
Ramesh Kumar	IND	8^th	288	0.22%

LUDHIANA EAST PAST ELECTION RESULTS

Year

Candidate’s Name	Party	Level	Votes	Vote Rate %	Margin

2017

Sanjeev Talwar	INC	Winner	43,010	33.03%	1,581
Daljit Singh Grewal (bhola)	AAP	Runner Up	41,429	31.82%

2012

Ranjit Singh Dhillon	SAD	Winner	38,157	36%	4,571
Gurmel Singh Pehalwan	INC	Runner Up	33,586	31%

2007

Sat Pal Gosain	BJP	Winner	30,232	49%	1,782
Surinder Kumar	INC	Runner Up	28,450	47%

2002

Surinder Kumar Dawar	INC	Winner	32,016	60%	13,249
Sat Pal Gosain	BJP	Runner Up	18,767	35%

1997

Sat Pal Gosain	BJP	Winner	36,338	58%	16,311
Om Parkash Gupta	INC	Runner Up	20,027	32%

1992

Satpaul Gosain	BJP	Winner	16,619	47%	3,816
Rajinder Saini	INC	Runner Up	12,803	36%

1985

Om Parkash Gupta	INC	Winner	24,802	45%	8,629
Sohan Singh Sibal	SAD	Runner Up	16,173	29%

1980

Om Parkash Gupta	INC(I)	Winner	24,614	48%	11,552
Sat Pal	BJP	Runner Up	13,062	25%

1977

Om Parkash Gupta	INC	Winner	17,564	36%	1,029
Surjan Singh	SAD	Runner Up	16,535	34%

The elections will be held amid the raging Covid-19 pandemic and the rising cases of the highly transmissible Omicron variant. Notably, along with the nationwide surge, Punjab is also seeing a jump in its daily cases of viral disease.

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