Across Punjab’s 13 Lok Sabha seats, turncoats dominate the candidates list of both the AAP and the BJP, with both fielding seven defectors each. The Congress has given tickets to four turncoats while the SAD has fielded two. And at least 60 percent of all these defections have taken place in an election year – either in the run-up to the ongoing polls or the 2023 bypolls or the 2022 assembly polls.
