In the district, which comprises 14 assembly constituencies, the election is expected to be a five-way contest between the ruling Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Shiromani Akali Dal (sad)-Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) alliance, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the local organization Lok Insaaf Party (LIP).
The entry of AAP and LIP in the last 2017 elections had restricted the SAD-BJP alliance to just one seat in the district. The coalition, which ended in 2020, won half the seats in the 2012 elections. In the 2007 elections, when Ludhiana had 12 seats, the alliance won seven seats, while the Congress got just five. In 2012, the Congress won the remaining half of the seats.
In the last elections, the Congress had won eight seats, the AAP three seats and the LIP two seats. The change in the political equation between the SAD and the BJP is expected to bring completely new results in the 2022 elections as well.
Even in AAP, the equations have changed since the last election. party’s Raikot MLAJagtar Singh Jagga Hisowal has joined Congress Party. Earlier, Supreme Court lawyer Harvinder Singh Phoolka, who won the Dakha assembly constituency as an AAP candidate, had quit the MLA post and the party in January 2019. Given that he has fought cases for the 1984 anti-Sikh riot victims. , Phoolka is popularly known as Sikh Voters and enjoy clean image.
SAD’s Manpreet Singh Ayali won Dakha in the 2019 by-election held to fill the MLA’s seat after Phoolka was ousted.
The district comprises of Ludhiana East, Ludhiana West, Ludhiana North, Ludhiana South, Ludhiana Central, Atma Nagar, Gill, Sahnewal, Samrala, Khanna, Payal, Raikot, Jagraon and Dakha assembly constituencies. AAP seems to have lost in the district, while SAD seems to have gained. Ludhiana West MLA Bharat Bhushan Ashu has been a minister in the state cabinet for some time, while Khanna MLA Gurkeerat Singh Kotli has been made a minister after Charanjit Singh Channi became the chief minister.
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