AAP wins big in Punjab civic elections ahead of 2027 assembly polls

CHANDIGARH: Punjab's governing AAP won implicit 950 (50%) wards arsenic municipal canvass results came successful Friday. Of 8 municipal corporations that went to polls, AAP won 5 - Mohali, Bathinda, Barnala, Moga and Batala - BJP won Abohar and Pathankot, Congress won Kapurthala.Congress was a distant second, winning 390 wards, followed by SAD with 191 portion BJP got 170. Surprisingly, independents won 251 wards to marque the 3rd largest chunk. AAP won the bulk of corporations, councils and nagar panchayats with 9 months to spell for assembly polls. CM Bhagwant Mann posted connected X, "This is the triumph of escaped electricity, Aam Aadmi Clinics, bully schools, and transparency successful jobs. Punjab has defeated divisive politics."Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal said, "People of Punjab person applauded the enactment of Bhagwant Mann's govt and swept retired 'ED Party'."Except Mohali, wherever Aam Aadmi Party had a constrictive victory, it won comprehensively successful the different 4 municipal corporations. BJP won municipal corporations successful Abohar and Pathankot and Congress successful Kapurthala.SAD, which is trying to resurrect its fortunes aft crushing defeats successful the 2017 and 2022 assembly elections, won successful segments of the hinterland of Bathinda territory but got lone 3 of 50 wards of the corporation.

BJP's show volition origin interest to the enactment enactment astatine a clip erstwhile it is aggressively trying to instrumentality the party's footprints beyond municipality pockets. In Barnala corporation, hometown of caller authorities BJP main Kewal Singh Dhillon, BJP could triumph lone six of 50 wards.Congress authorities president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring congratulated enactment workers for putting up a "brave fight" and accused AAP of intimidating absorption candidates.