The storm of Aam Aadmi Party has given the worst defeat to Congress, Shiromani Akali Dal and Bharatiya Janata Party in the electoral history of Punjab. These elections are no less than a nightmare for the Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab, which got the status as a separate state in 1966. The Akalis, who ruled Punjab’s power for decades, have won only three seats this time.
Sikh-centric regional political party Shiromani Akali suffered a major setback when its patron and five-time Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and party president and his son Sukhbir Badal lost their seats.
Sukhbir Badal, who had assets of 202 crores, was defeated by the person of three crores
It is said that while choosing your leader, age does not matter and neither does his wealth. This thing became even more clear in these elections when Sukhbir Badal with assets of 202 crores was defeated by an AAP candidate with assets of only 3 crores.
Voters in Jalalabad chose Jagdeep Goldie Kamboj (35) of AAP over Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal. Goldie, who declared assets of just Rs 3 crore, defeated the veteran politician with a net worth of Rs 202 crore by a margin of 30,930 votes.
Kamboj has a long association with the Congress and was general secretary of the Youth Congress and even in-charge of the Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir Youth Congress before leaving the party in 2019. He contested the 2019 Jalalabad by-election as an independent candidate after being denied ticket from the Congress. But then he got only 5,000 votes.
Ever opposed Kejriwal’s visit to Punjab
Kamboj is the same person who opposed Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s visit to Punjab in 2016. However, according to the people of Jalalabad, Kamboj has come a long way from being a youth leader to protesting Kejriwal’s Punjab tour in 2016, joining AAP in February 2020, getting a ticket and defeating a veteran by a huge margin. has done.