The battle for the by-election to be held in Chabewal Assembly Constituency on November 20 has become interesting. All the political parties except AAP have fielded candidates from other parties for this election. All the old leaders who have entered the election field are contesting the elections from the parties, which they have been strongly opposing before. Along with this, the calculation of the votes obtained by these parties is also looking somewhat confused this time.
While Aam Aadmi Party candidate Dr. Ishank Kumar, whose father was a two-time MLA from the Congress Party and currently has the support of the political branch of AAP MP Dr. Raj Kumar, there is a long-term stay in the Bahujan Samaj Party and the previous After contesting Lok Sabha election on BSP ticket, Congress candidate Advocate Ranjit Kumar, now joining Congress and contesting from Chabewal, is confident in his party’s old stance in the area.
On the other hand, Sohan Singh Thandal, who was fielded by the BJP, supported the Shomani Akali Dal for more than two decades and was also a minister in the Akali-BJP government. Then, after the political divorce of Akali-BJP in the last election, he contested the Lok Sabha elections from Shomani Akali Dal and now suddenly left the Akali Dal and joined the BJP to become a BJP candidate. All the candidates are eyeing the traditional votes of their party Besides, Shromani, who is not contesting the election this time, is on the vote bank of the Akali Dal, which can turn the tide with a strong party. His son and AAP candidate Dr. Ishank Kumar is sure to reap the benefits of Dr. Raj Kumar’s impressive vote bank created while he was in the Congress and now after joining the Aam Aadmi Party. Yes, but the Akali Dal not contesting this election has changed the entire calculation of votes. In all these circumstances, where the BJP candidate Sohan Singh Thandal is hoping for the support of his former party’s classic voters, but after the farmers’ movement, the opposition to the BJP, which intensified in Punjab, is also affecting him these days. It is seen from the opposition of While the Congress is trying to win the votes of the Akali Dal in its favor, the Aam Aadmi Party is also using every trick to suppress the votes of the Akali Dal.
Although the BJP got 4073 votes in the 2022 assembly elections, the BJP’s tally increased to 94072 votes during the Lok Sabha elections held this year. , which decreased to 11935 during the last Lok Sabha elections. Dr. Raj Kumar of the Congress had secured 47300 votes in the 2022 assembly elections, while in the Lok Sabha elections held after Dr. Raj Kumar joined AAP, the Congress The candidate Yamini Gomar could only get 18162 votes. In this way, the Congress had to suffer a loss of about 30 thousand votes. In 2022, Aam Aadmi Party, which got 39729 votes from Chabewal, also suffered a loss of about 10000 votes during the Lok Sabha elections. 28955 votes were obtained. Similarly, during the last Lok Sabha elections, a big change was seen in the vote percentage of the parties and if the same trend continues in the by-elections, then due to the non-entry of the Akali Dal in the election field, any party will not be able to win at the moment. The traditional vote bank of the Akali Dal, which is not visible in the election, is likely to have a big hand in the election results.
