Tewari beats Chandumajra by 46,884 votes
Friday, 24/05/2019
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Chandigarh : Former Union minister and Congress candidate Manish Tewari wrested the Anandpur Sahib seat from Shiromani Akali Dal nominee Prem Singh Chandumajra on Thursday. Tewari defeated the two-time MP by a margin of 46,884 votes, according to the Election Commission results. The senior Congress leader had been in the lead against Chandumajra since counting of votes began at 8 am. After his victory, Tewari paid obeisance at Shri Kesgarh Sahib Gurdwara, Anandpur Sahib.
Meanwhile, unlike 2014, the infighting-ridden AAP was struggling to save its sinking ship, with several leaders either having defected or facing suspension. Countering defections within the party, actor-comedian Bhagwant Mann, who retained the Sangrur seat, accused party rebel Sukhpal Singh Khaira of being an agent of both the Congress and the Akali Dal and of engineering defections of AAP legislators to the Congress.