The ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday faced a resounding defeat in the Sangrur Lok Sabha by-election just 100 days after the massive mandate it got in State Assembly polls. A former IPS and Khalistan-ideologue Simranjit Singh Mann, won the Sangrur seat — represented by AAP since 2014 — by a slim margin of 5,822 votes.
On the other hand, AAP candidate Durgesh Pathak defeated the BJP’s Rajesh Bhatia by a margin of 11,468 votes in the Rajinder Nagar Assembly by-poll. Pathak got 40,319 votes (55.76 per cent) while Bhatia got 28,851 (39.91 per cent) votes. The Congress candidate Prem Lata secured only 2019 votes (2.79 per cent).
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal called it the defeat of BJP’s “dirty politics” and thanked the people for appreciating the work done by his Government in the national Capital. Senior AAP leader and Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia also.
