The vote counting for the by-polls to four assembly seats in Punjab started at 8 am today, November 23. Stay tuned to this live blog for latest updates.

The AAP’s candidate Dr Ishank Kumar decisively defeated Congress’s Ranjit Kumar by a margin of 28,690 votes. Dr Ishank secured 51,904 votes, compared to Ranjit’s 23,214 votes, while BJP candidate Sohan Singh Thandal managed only 8,692 votes.

The move comes in the backdrop of AAP's LS poll performance. The party's vote share fell from 42% in the 2022 assembly polls to 26.2% in the 2024 parliamentary election.

The bypolls were necessitated after the incumbent legislators were elected to the Lok Sabha earlier this year.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab Friday named Cabinet Minister Aman Arora as the state unit president replacing Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, and appointed Batala MLA Amansher Singh Shery Kalsi as the working president. The appointment of Arora and Kalsi came a day after the by-elections to the four Punjab Assembly seats were held Thursday.

AAP appoints Aman Arora as new Punjab unit president, replacing Bhagwant Mann, ahead of crucial byelection results.

In a strategic move, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) appointed cabinet minister Aman Arora as the new Punjab unit chief, succeeding chief minister Bhagwant

Arora’s appointment is widely seen in political circles as effort by the AAP to attract Hindu voters, particularly in urban areas, while also countering the growing influence of the BJP in the state

The party also named MLA Amansher Singh Shairi Kalsi as the state working president. "Today, I have handed over the responsibility of the party president to two of my close collea