Jalandhar Lok Sabha bypolls: AAP maintains huge lead
Deccan ChronicleJalandhar : As per the early trends by the Election Commission of India, the Aam Aadmi Party is leading at the Jalandhar Lok Sabha seat, which went to by-polls on May 10 and the counting for which began at 8.00 am on Saturday. The Jalandhar by-polls were held on 10 May and recorded a voter turnout of 54.70 per cent, well below the 63.04 per cent recorded in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The byelection for Jalandhar Lok Sabha, one of the 13 Lok Sabha constituencies in Punjab was necessitated after sitting MP Santokh Singh Chaudhary of Congress passed away on January 14 this year following a cardiac arrest during the party's Bharat Jodo Yatra. In the elections, Congress has fielded Chaudhary's widow Karamjit Kaur Chaudhary from Jalandhar, while BJP has fielded Inder Iqbal Singh Atwal, Aam Aadmi Party has fielded Sushil Kumar Rinku, Shiromani Akali Dal has given a ticket to Dr Sukhwinder Kumar Sukhi and Shiromani Akali Dal or SAD has placed its hopes on Gurjant Singh Kattu to wrest this seat.