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SAD patriarch and four-time CM Parkash Singh Badal has lost his traditional seat of Lambi after five decades. It is after three decades that Punjab\u2019s major political family of Badals will remain unrepresented in the Punjab state assembly. A report by Bharat Hiteshi<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n All from the Badal clan, who contested the 2022 state Vidhan Sabha elections, have lost the polls from their respective strongholds. And there would not be anyone from the Badal family in the newly elected state assembly.\u00a0 \u00a0The last time it happened was during the 1992 Four-time CM senior Badal lost from his home turf Lambi constituency. He was representing the seat since 1997 and remained the MLA for 10 terms.\u00a0 The 94-year-old stalwart leader lost the elections to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate Gurmeet Singh Khudian.\u00a0 Shiromani Akali Dal patriarch Badal has the distinction of governing the state for a maximum number of times and for the longest stretch of 10 years and 15 days (2007 to 2017).\u00a0 \u00a0After being elected as sarpanch, Badal had won his first Assembly poll in 1957 and had remained invincible since 1969.<\/p>\n Parkash Singh Badal\u2019s son Sukhbir Singh, who is the party president, lost the election from Jalalabad seat. He lost to AAP candidate Jagdeep Kamboj.\u00a0 Sukhbir Singh Badal was the deputy chief minister when his father senior Badal remained the CM for the last time during Parkash Singh\u2019s nephew Manpreet Singh Badal, who is contesting from Congress ticket from Bathinda Urban seat, lost to AAP’s Jagroop Singh Gill.\u00a0 \u00a0 Manpreet was the finance minister in the incumbent government and before that, he also remained finance minister in the SAD-BJP government in 2007-12. Later he quit from SAD and floated his own party and later joined Congress.<\/p>\n Senior Badal\u2019s son-in-law Adesh Pratap Singh Kairon, who is the grandson of Partap Singh Kairon, also lost the elections from Patti. Contesting on SAD ticket, Adesh Pratap lost to AAP\u2019s Laljit Singh Bhullar.\u00a0 Former minister and Akali Dal heavyweight Bikram Singh Former CMs Parkash Singh Badal, Capt Amarinder Singh and Rajinder Kaur Bhattal and incumbent CM Charanjit Channi were among the stalwarts who tasted a crushing defeat in the Assembly polls. The biggest upset was in Lambi where SAD patriarch and five-time CM Badal, whose career spans over seven decades, lost his traditional seat to AAP\u2019s Gurmeet Two-time CM and Punjab Lok Congress chief Amarinder couldn\u2019t defend his citadel Patiala, losing to Ajitpal Kohli of the AAP by 19,697 votes. Ex-CM Bhattal finished third from Lehra and lost to AAP\u2019s Barinder Kumar Goyal Vakeel. CM Channi lost both from Chamkaur Sahib and Bhadaur by 7,833 and 37,220 votes to AAP\u2019s Dr Charanjit Singh and Labh Singh Ugoke, respectively.<\/p>\n SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal lost by 30,374 votes to AAP\u2019s Jagdeep Kamboj from Jalalabad. Amritsar East sprang a surprise with both PCC chief Navjot Sidhu and SAD stalwart Bikram Majithia losing to greenhorn Jeevan Jot Kaur of the AAP.\u00a0 Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal lost to AAP\u2019s Jagroop Gill from Bathinda Urban by 62,319 votes.<\/p>\n Interestingly, Congress candidate, Sandeep Jakhar bucked the trend and won from Abolar segment by defeating AAP\u2019s Kuldeep Kumar by a margin of 5471 votes. He is the fourth member of the well known Jakhar family who succeeded in Assembly elections.<\/p>\n So, when AAP swept Punjab,\u00a0 Raghav Chadha, who ran AAP\u2019s Punjab poll campaign said that it was not only \u201cjharoo\u201d or broom but a \u201cvacuum cleaner\u201d. There are talks already that AAP has become the \u201cprincipal challenger to the BJP\u201d.\u00a0 There are other assemblies which will go to polls in 2022 and 2023.\u00a0 It is at this time that AAP with a victory in Punjab is sure to position itself as a challenger to BJP.\u00a0 A senior AAP leader said that Gujarat may be AAP\u2019s focus next.\u00a0 Haryana too could be a State where AAP will position itself.<\/p>\n The Delhi model and Kejriwal\u2019s appeal to voters \u201cEk Mauka\u201d or just once chance–which made Punjab voters vote for AAP–if replicated successfully in Punjab could very well be AAP\u2019s winning card in other states.\u00a0 \u00a0The good thing for AAP and for the Opposition is that the AAP is an answer to the new generation\u2019s aspirations.\u00a0 No doubt that The landslide win in Punjab has positioned AAP in direct competition to the nation\u2019s grand old party, the Congress.\u00a0 In the five-state Assembly polls, which were regarded as a kind of semi-final, the Congress has been decimated. After the loss in Punjab, Congress is left with only two states \u2014 Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.<\/p>\n Arvind Kejriwal, while addressing the party workers at the party office in Delhi immediately after the results, said that this was a stamp on honest politics and \u201cBhagat Singh said that the system has to be changed and the people of Punjab have changed the system.\u201d\u00a0 The party has often made a mention of its national ambition, and has fielded candidates in several states. With the Punjab win, the ambition finally seems to be taking shape. Kejriwal shares a good AAP\u2019s Punjab in-charge Raghav Chadha said that the BJP took 10 years to form its government in a state, but AAP has expanded its base to second state in Punjab and in both the states the AAP has got landslide victory.\u00a0 Apart from Punjab, AAP has performed well in Goa where it secured around 4 per cent votes. In Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, the party has contested and though it has not won, they have tried to make their organisation alive in each district of the state.<\/p>\n AAP\u2019s Bhagwant Mann,\u00a0 in his first public address in his home town Sangrur after winning the seat and seeing the meteoric rise of the party, observed, \u201cNo government office in the state will have the photo of the Punjab CM, but will carry a portrait of B.R. Ambedkar\u2026.We <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SAD patriarch and four-time CM Parkash Singh Badal has lost his traditional seat of Lambi after five decades. It is after three decades that Punjab\u2019s major political family of Badals will remain unrepresented in the Punjab state assembly. 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\nelections when Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) boycotted the state assembly elections.\u00a0 \u00a0In the 1997 state poll, SAD patriarch Parkash Singh Badal formed the coalition government with BJP and became the state\u2019s chief minister for the third time. Since then, the Badal family remained part of every state assembly.<\/p>\n
\nthe 2012-17 tenure.<\/p>\n
\nMajithia has lost from Amritsar East Assembly constituency.\u00a0 Bikram\u2019s sister Harsimrat Kaur, the former Union Minister is married to Sukhbir Badal.<\/p>\n
\nKhudian by 11,357 votes. After being elected as sarpanch, Badal had won his first Assembly poll in 1957 and had remained invincible since 1969.<\/p>\n
\nArvind Kejriwal\u2019s Aam Aadmi Party is set to foray into national
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\nrapport with non-BJP leaders, including Mamata Banerjee, Sharad Pawar and Akhilesh Yadav.<\/p>\n
\nwill ensure that the youth do not have to go abroad\u2026 Within a month, you will observe changes,\u201d he added<\/p>\n