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Congress wins eight seats in Punjab
SAD gets four, BJP one

CHANDIGARH: The Congress party has won eight out of 13 Lok Sabha seats of Punjab while the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal has won only four. The BJP has won one seat.

The Congress has scored victory in Patiala, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Gurdaspur, Anandpur Sahib, Fatehgarh Sahib, Sangrur and Ludhiana.

The SAD has won Bathinda, Faridkot, Ferozepur and Khadoor Sahib, while the BJP has won one seat of Amritsar by thin margin.

A hat trick has been scored by Preneet Kaur wife of former Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh the candidate from Patiala and Navjot Singh Sidhu the BJP MP from Amritsar won their seats third time successively.

Preneet Kaur has defeated Prem Singh Chandumajra by about 97,383 votes. Sidhu has defeated Om Parkash Soni of Congress by 2,900 votes.

Vinod Khanna who had won Gurdaspur seat three times lost this time to Partap Singh Bajwa of Congress by small margin.

Rana Gurjit Singh who was looking up to make hat trick had lost from Rattan Singh Ajnala in Khadoor Sahib by margin of about 51,000 votes.

Sukhdev Singh Libra a Congress candidate from Fatgehgarh Sahib has won the seat by defeating the Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha, Charanjit Singh Atwal with margin of 34,219 votes. Libra a former SAD leader, sitting MP was expelled from SAD when he voted in favour of Dr. Manmohan Singh government during no-confidence motion in parliament.

Rajiv Gandhi’s team fared well too. The two out of three candidates selected by him won. Ravneet Singh Bittu president Punjab Youth Congress has won from Anandpur Sahib by defeating SAD leader Dr. Daljit Singh Cheema.

Vijay Inder Singla former Youth Congress president has won from Sangrur by defeating SAD stalwart and sitting MP Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa. Rahul’s third candidate, Sukhwinder Singh Danny from Faridkot lost to Paramjit Kaur Gulshan, the sitting Akali MP by 62,042 votes.

The Akalis have managed to win their “prestige seat: of Bathinda. Harsimrat Kaur, wife of Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal, has defeated Raninder Singh son of former CM Capt Amarinder Singh by over 90,000 votes.

The SAD has also won Ferozepur seat from where Sher Singh Ghobaya sitting Akali MLA has won defeating a Congress stalwart sitting MP Jagmeet Singh Brar.

Mohinder Singh Kay Pee PPCC working president has won from Jalandhar defeating Hans Raj Hans of SAD by margin of over 51,000 votes.

The BJP has lost Gurdaspur and Hoshiarpur where its candidates gave tough fight to Congress. Vinod Khanna lost the Gurdaspur seat and Som Parkash of BJP has lost the Hoshiarpur seat by only 86 votes. — Agencies