Congress Sets Record For Biggest Poll Win In Punjab In 25 Years

Here is people on Twitter said highlighting the sheer extent of the AAP’s defeat.

The Congress stalwart, who is the party’s chief ministerial candidate, could not have asked for a better gift on his 75th birthday. “I will identify the real culprits and put them behind bars”, he said.

Amarinder said that the party would hold a meeting in Chandigarh Sunday and prepare a list of probable members of his cabinet. The party’s youth brigade, led by vice-president Rahul Gandhi, didn’t have the kind of say it may have wished, which may have helped as this election seemed to favour experience over youth.

For the Badals, these wins have come as a big face saver. The success of Singh, who is also the state Congress president, comes after Badal foiled his previous attempts to become chief minister, in 2007 and 2012.

Congress today routed SAD-BJP alliance in the polls by ending ten year regime of Badal family.

Badal Sr’s son and outgoing Deputy Chief Minister, Sukhbir Singh Badal, won from Jalalabad.

Another SAD MP Balwinder Singh Bhunder’s son Dilraj Singh romped home victorious from Sardulgarh defeating firebrand Congress leader Ajit Inder Singh Mofar by 8,857 votes.

While handing a crushing defeat to the ruling SAD-BJP combine and also rejecting the rookie Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the voters comprehensively trusted the leadership of the experienced Capt Amarinder Singh to give a decisive mandate to the Congress.

Flanked by his wife Preneet Kaur, daughter Jai Inder Kaur, brothers Raja Malwinder Singh and Raja Randhir Singh, Amarinder visited the gurdwara and temple at Burj Baba Ala Singh at the historic Qila Mubarak, from where he had started his poll campaign earlier. It still managed a lead on 15 seats, with a almost 25% vote share – more than AAP’s.

A party needs 59 seats to gain a simple majority in the Punjab assembly.