The Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) big victory in the Punjab Assembly polls hints that the State people have voted for ‘alternative politics’. It also shows a trust-deficit on the traditional parties – the Congress, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the BJP. The AAP was leading in over 90 seats of the the 117 constituencies.
The ‘disillusionment’ of the voters from the traditional parties could be gauged from the fact that stalwarts of the Congress and the SAD faced drubbing at the hands of relatively newcomers of the AAP. Among those who were trailing in their constituencies included Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi (bother seats), former Chief Minister and SAD patron Parkash Singh Badal, SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal, former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu.
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