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Lok Insaaf Party
Lok Insaaf Party was founded in 2016 by Simarjit Singh Bains. It contested 2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election on 5 seats in alliance with Aam Aadmi Party. 2017 Punjab assembly election LIP contested 2017 Punjab assembly election on 5 seats. It formed coalition with Aam Aadmi Party. Party able to get only 2 seats out of 5. It got 26.46% votes in 5 seats but 1.22% overall votes. Simarjit Singh Bains won Atam Nagar Assembly Constituency and Balwinder Singh Bains won the Ludhiana South Assembly Constituency. 2019 general election In 2019 Indian general election party contested on 3 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab as a member of Punjab Democratic Alliance but couldn't win any. Which were as follow :- *Sangrur *Ludhiana Ludhiana ( ) is the most populous and the largest Cities in India, city in the Indian state of Punjab, India, Punjab. The city has an estimated population of 1,618,879 2011 Indian census, 2011 census and distributed over , making Ludhiana the ... * Fatehg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simarjit Singh Bains
Simarjeet Singh Bains is an Indian politician from the state of Punjab and was a former member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly. Political career Between 2012 and 2022, Bains represented the Atam Nagar Assembly constituency of Punjab. Simarjeet Bains started his career as an independent member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly. Along with his brother, Balwinder Singh Bains, he established the Lok Insaaf Party and made an alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party for the 2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. Bains also contested as an independent candidate from Ludhiana in 2014 general elections and gathered 2,10,917 votes. They left the AAP alliance in March 2018 following AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal issuing a public apology to Bikram Singh Majithia, having earlier accused him of being the kingpin of the illegal drug trade in Punjab. In December 2016, Bains and a group of men lifted the toll barrier at the Ladhowal Toll Plaza, allowing people to drive through t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balwinder Singh Bains
Balwinder Singh Bains is an Indian politician from the state of Punjab and a former member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly. Political career In 2012 he contested as an independent candidate and won the election. In 2016 along with his brother Simarjit Singh Bains he formed Lok Insaaf Party. Member of Legislative Assembly Between 2012 and 2022, as Member of the Legislative Assembly, Bains represented the Ludhiana South Assembly constituency of Punjab. In 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election he contested from his constituency Ludhiana South Assembly constituency and was defeated by Rajinder Pal Kaur of Aam Aadmi Party. Bains received 11.29% of the total votes polled and came on fourth position behind AAP, BJP and INC. Personal life Bains's brother Simarjit Singh Bains is also a Lok Insaaf Party member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly The Punjab Legislative Assembly or the Punjab Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral legislature of the state of Punjab (India), Punj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punjab Legislative Assembly
The Punjab Legislative Assembly or the Punjab Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral legislature of the state of Punjab in India. The Sixteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly was constituted in March 2022. At present, it consists of 117 members, directly elected from 117 single-seat constituencies. The tenure of the Legislative Assembly is five years unless dissolved sooner. The Speaker of the sixteenth assembly is Kultar Singh Sandhwan. The meeting place of the Legislative Assembly since 6 March 1961 is the ''Vidhan Bhavan'' in Chandigarh. History In the British Raj, an Executive Council was formed under The Indian Councils Act, 1861. It was only under the Government of India Act 1919 that a Legislative Council was set up in Punjab. Later, under the Government of India Act 1935, the Punjab Legislative Assembly was constituted with a membership of 175. It was summoned for the first time on 1 April 1937. In 1947, Punjab Province was partitioned into West Punjab and East Punjab a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aam Aadmi Party
The Aam Aadmi Party (; AAP) is a political party in India, as one of the national political parties. The AAP was founded in November 2012 by Arvind Kejriwal and his then-companions following the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement, popularly known as Anna Andolan. The AAP is currently the ruling party of two governments: Delhi, the capital territory of India, and the state of Punjab. The party's election symbol is a broom. The party came into existence following a rift between Kejriwal and Indian activist Anna Hazare regarding the incorporation of electoral politics into the popular 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement, which had been demanding a Jan Lokpal Bill since 2011. Hazare preferred the movement should remain politically unaligned, whereas Kejriwal felt the failure of the agitation route necessitated changes in government's representation itself. Janlokpal was established in Delhi and in Punjab as soon as AAP formed the respective governments with full majority. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punjab Democratic Alliance
Punjab Democratic Alliance was formed by Punjab Ekta Party leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira to contest 2019 Indian general election in Punjab on all 13 Lok Sabha seats. PDA was part of the nationwide Mahagathbandhan, and projected Mayawati as its prime ministerial face. Campaign On 12 May 2019, BSP-PDA held a massive rally at Langroya village, Nawanshahr and BSP national president Mayawati campaigned for all 13 PDA candidates of Punjab including Sukhpal Singh Khaira and Simarjit Singh Bains alongside BSP candidates former journalist Balwinder Kumar from Jalandhar, retired IAS officer Khushi Ram from Hoshiarpur and international polo player Vikram Singh Sodhi from Anandpur Sahib. Mayawati attacked SAD-BJP and Congress in her speech for failing people of Punjab. Communist leaders Mangat Ram Pasla from the Revolutionary Marxist Party of India (RMPI), Bant Brar from the CPI and Kiranjit Singh Sekhon from the MCPI (U) were also speakers at rally. Members Following were the members o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly Election
A Legislative Assembly election was held in the Indian state of Punjab on 4 February 2017 to elect the 117 members of the Fifteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly. The counting of votes was done on 11 March 2017. The ruling pre-election coalition was the alliance comprising the political parties Shiromani Akali Dal and Bharatiya Janata Party and led by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. The voter turnout for the Punjab Assembly election was 77.2% The Indian National Congress led by former Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh defeated the ruling alliance and the newcomer Aam Aadmi Party. Background Electoral process changes In April 2016, the Election Commission of India revealed about 8 lakh bogus votes of state being cancelled in the past one year and over 7 lakh youngsters who have attained the age of 18 this year were yet to get registered. One constituency in every district will be chosen for trial run of Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) machines used along with E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Indian General Election
General elections were held in India in seven phases from 11 April to 19 May 2019 to elect the members of the 17th Lok Sabha. Votes were counted and the result was declared on 23 May. Around 912 million people were eligible to vote, and voter turnout was over 67 percent – the highest ever, as well as the highest ever participation by women voters. The Bharatiya Janata Party received 37.36% of the vote, the highest vote share by a political party since the 1989 general election, and won 303 seats, further increasing its substantial majority. In addition, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won 353 seats. The Indian National Congress won 52 seats, failing to get 10% of the seats needed to claim the post of Leader of Opposition; Congress led United Progressive Alliance won 91 seats. Other parties and their alliances won 98 seats. Legislative assembly elections in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim were held simultaneously with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-past-the-post system to represent their respective constituencies, and they hold their seats for five years or until the body is dissolved by the President on the advice of the council of ministers. The house meets in the Lok Sabha Chambers of the Sansad Bhavan, New Delhi. The maximum membership of the House allotted by the Constitution of India is 552 (Initially, in 1950, it was 500). Currently, the house has 543 seats which are made up by the election of up to 543 elected members and at a maximum. Between 1952 and 2020, 2 additional members of the Anglo-Indian community were also nominated by the President of India on the advice of Government of India, which was abolished in January 2020 by the 104th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2019. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sangrur (Lok Sabha Constituency)
Sangrur Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 13 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Punjab state in northern India. Assembly segments Presently, Sangrur Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following nine Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments: Members of Parliament ^ by-poll Election results 2022 by-election Incumbent Sangrur Lok Sabha constituency MP Bhagwant Mann had contested in the Punjab Assembly election and won. AAP won a large majority of 92 out of total 117 seats. Mann was designated as the Chief Minister of Punjab. Before taking the oath as CM of Punjab, Bhagwant Mann resigned from his post of MP Sangrur. By-election to Sangrur Lok Sabha constituency was held on 23 June 2022. Simranjit Singh Mann was declared the winner 26 June 2022. 2019 2014 2009 2004 1999 1998 1996 Notes External linksSangrur lok sabha constituency election 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludhiana (Lok Sabha Constituency)
Ludhiana Lok Sabha constituency (S. No. 7) is one of the 13 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Punjab, India. This Lok Sabha constituency is composed of 9 Punjab Legislative Assembly Constituencies from Ludhiana district, which are given further in the table. The incumbent MP is Ravneet Singh Bittu from Indian National Congress, who won consecutively two times from this Lok Sabha constituency in 2014 & 2019 Indian general elections. Punjab Legislative Assembly segments Members of Parliament Election results General elections 2019 General elections 2014 General elections 2009 See also * Ludhiana district * List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India, is made up of Members of Parliament ( MPs). Each MP, represents a single geographic constituency. There are currently 543 constituencies while maximum seats will fill up to 550 (after ar ... Notes External linksLudhi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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