The Election Commission of India on Saturday announced the Punjab Assembly Election 2022 schedule, declaring February 14 (Monday) as the date of polling.
The Punjab Election Result 2022 will be announced on March 10 (Thursday) when the counting of votes in the state will take place along with four other electoral states – Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur.
with the announcement of assembly election scheduleThe model code of conduct has come into force in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur. The last day of voting in the upcoming election season will be March 7, usually the day when exit poll results are declared.
Preparations for Punjab elections have been heating up since 2020, when thousands of farmers marched from the state to Delhi’s borders demanding the withdrawal of three agricultural laws that they accused farmers of favoring corporates. They camped on the national capital’s borders for over a year before the Center repealed the laws in Parliament.
The farmers may have returned to their homes, but the saga will resonate in the coming elections, with ups and downs in the fortunes of the ruling Congress, the BJP-Amarinder Singh alliance and the Aam Aadmi Party, making the race very close. Call now.
Number in Punjab Legislative Assembly
There are a total of 117 seats in the Punjab Legislative Assembly, of which 59 are the majority mark. Punjab has 117 constituencies spread over three regions – Majha (25 constituencies), Doaba (23) and Malwa (69).
In the 2017 Punjab elections, the Congress came to power with 77 seats, while the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) gave an astonishing 20 seats. Unleashed from power, the Shiromani Akali Dal won 15 seats and its then ally the BJP won three. The term of the current Punjab Vidhan Sabha ends on March 27, 2022.
party status
Despite the sharp replacement of Captain Amarinder Singh as the Chief Minister of Punjab in September, the Punjab Congress seemed to have an advantage over other parties in the state. It brought in Charanjit Singh Channi as chief minister, and despite the opposition dubbing it a “stop-gap arrangement”, the oldest party patted Punjab for giving it its first Dalit chief minister.
But passive-aggressive statements against Channi by state unit chief Navjot Singh Sidhu and sacrilege-lynching incidents in Amritsar and Kapurthala have robbed the Congress of that advantage. Completing a trio of troubles was a breach in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s security in Ferozepur on Wednesday.
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He too is heading towards the election without the post of Chief Minister, who is caught in the 22nd catch. The high command cannot declare Channi as the chief minister’s face and cannot afford to oppose the Sidhu camp. Nor can it declare Sidhu as the chief ministerial candidate and justify the “stop-gap” spectacle of the opposition.
The Congress still hopes that the farmers’ protest and its action against former Akali Dal minister Bikram Singh Majithia in the drug case will revive it.
AAP is also heading towards elections without any CM face despite Bhagwant Mann’s open views, but Arvind Kejriwal-led party is riding on the results of Chandigarh civic polls, where it has emerged as the single largest party. It has been promising Sikh chief minister, Delhi model of governance to the voters of Punjab and unlike other players comes to the state without baggage. There is speculation that AAP may tie up with farmers’ organizations that have announced their political foray.
The BJP is carrying the bitter burden of opposing agricultural laws in the elections, but it is expected that its alliance with former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh’s newly formed Punjab Lok Congress will compensate to some extent. The party has also prompted grassroots workers in various states to show how a “grave lapse” on the part of the Congress government compromised the prime minister’s security in Ferozepur.
The separate sabotage attempts at the Golden Temple in Amritsar and Kapurthala and the lynching of the accused have given the BJP ammunition to target the Channi government over the law and order situation.
The Shiromani Akali Dal, which was voted out of power in 2017, is struggling to get back there. His decision to pull out of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance over agricultural laws issues did not result in the political dividends he had hoped for.
The FIR against Sukhbir Badal’s brother-in-law and former minister Bikram Singh Majithia is another setback, but the party is alleging “political vendetta” behind the move. Yet it has gone off the block, announcing candidates on some seats.
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