Simranjit Singh Mann, 77, is the SAD-Amritsar's Simranjit Singh Mann is winning in Sangrur bypolls with 8100 votes. At 1.58pm, Simranjit Singh Mann of Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) is leading with a margin of 8100 votes; AAP's Gurmail Singh continues to trail,official confirmation yet to come.
Sangrur is known as the stronghold of AAP incumbent Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann from where he had won the parliamentary seat in 2014 and 2019. The seat fell vacant after Mann resigned as MP following his victory from the Dhuri constituency in the state assembly Polls.
The AAP party had campaigned along with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for AAP candidate and party’s district unit chief Gurmail Singh. During the campaigning phase, Opposition parties had attacked the ruling party over “deteriorating” law and order situation after the gruesome killing of famous Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala.