AAP candidate polled most votes of urban voters in Tarn Taran bypoll

In Tarn Taran town which has 55,000 votes, the winning Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate Harmeet Singh Sandhu received an overwhelming support from the urban voters who kept their distance from the Congress party. About 30,000 voters exercised their franchise in the election. Harmeet Singh Sandhu got 12,690 votes and was leading in all 57 booths in the city, followed by Sukhwinder Kaur Randhawa of the Shiromani Akali Dal who got about 5,700 votes, 'Waris Punjab De' candidate Mandeep Singh secured 5,429 votes, Bharatiya Janata Party's Harjit Singh Sandhu got 2,408 and Congress party's Karanbir Singh Burj could get 2,324 votes only.

The Congress party did not win a single booth in the city. 'Waris Punjab De' candidate Mandeep Singh remained ahead of Shiromani Akali Dal's Sukhwinder Kaur in 27 booths and the Akali Dal was ahead in the remaining 30 than the Waris Punjab De. Political expert advocate Stalinjit Singh Sandhu said that the city's Scheduled Caste voters moving away from the Congress party is being considered as an alarming sign for the party's future. The voter of Tarn Taran city is capable of holding the scales of fate of any candidate in the constituency in his hands, he said.