{"id":316009,"date":"2019-10-24T11:20:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T11:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316009"},"modified":"2019-10-24T11:53:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T11:53:51","slug":"punjab-bypolls-result-congress-wins-3-seats-sad-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/punjab-bypolls-result-congress-wins-3-seats-sad-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab bypolls result: Congress wins 3 seats, SAD 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/punjab-bypolls-result-congress-wins-3-seats-sad-1\/amarinder-sukhbir\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-316043\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-316043 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/amarinder-sukhbir-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/amarinder-sukhbir-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/amarinder-sukhbir-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/amarinder-sukhbir.jpg 601w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a>The Congress won three Assembly seats, while Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) won one in the Punjab bypolls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress won Phagwara, Mukerian and Jalalabad seats and the opposition SAD got Dakha seat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress candidate Balwinder Singh Dhaliwal defeated BJPs Rajesh Bagha by a margin of 26,116 votes in Phagwara.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">SAD\u2019s Manpreet Singh Ayali defeated Sandeep Singh Sandhu of Congress by a margin of 14,672 votes in Dakha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress\u2019s Raminder Singh Awla and Indu Bala won from Jalalabad and Mukerian seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Awla beat SAD\u2019s Raj Singh with a margin of 16633 votes and Bala defeated BJP\u2019s Jangi Lal Mahajan with a margin of 3440 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The voting took place on October 21 for the four Assembly constituencies and the counting of votes began today at 8 am.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress won three Assembly seats, while Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) won one in the Punjab bypolls. The Congress won Phagwara, Mukerian and Jalalabad seats and the opposition SAD got Dakha seat. Congress candidate Balwinder Singh Dhaliwal defeated BJPs Rajesh Bagha by a margin of 26,116 votes in Phagwara. SAD\u2019s Manpreet Singh Ayali defeated Sandeep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":316043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2913,2014],"tags":[236,11915,3911],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316044,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316009\/revisions\/316044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/316043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}