Chandigarh: Punjab’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has retained the Tarn Taran assembly seat, with party candidate Harmeet Singh Sandhu securing a win by a hefty margin of 12,000 votes, defeating Shiromani Akali Dal’s (SAD’s) Sukhwinder Kaur Randhawa.

Sandhu, a former Akali who had shifted to AAP ahead of these elections, secured almost 42,700 votes while Randhawa got over 30,500 votes.

While AAP’s choice of candidate has clearly gone in their favour, the Akalis coming in second is the more significant takeaway from the results, signalling the revival of the party after a decade. The result also re-establishes Sukhbir Singh Badal as leader of the SAD, a position his dissenters had been asking him to vacate for the past two years. Show Full Article

Independent candidate Mandeep Singh,

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