Five-time chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, who was seeking re-election from his home turf Lambi, has lost to nearest rival and AAP candidate Gurmeet Singh Khudian. SAD leader lost by a margin of 11,357 votes.

The Lambi assembly constituency comes under the Muktsar district. The seat is considered to be a bastion of Shiromani Akali Dal. SAD patron and former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal had bagged the seat five times in a row since 1997 and is trying his luck for the sixth time this election. Badal even defeated Amarinder Singh in 2017.

Of the five elections that Badal contested from this seat, every time his winning margin was over 20 thousand except in 2007 when he defeated Congress by over nine thousand votes.

Source: RepublicWorld