In the 2024 Gidderbaha bypoll, Hardeep Singh Dimpy Dhillon, once a two-time Akali Dal candidate finally tasted victory after joining AAP, defeating Congress’s Amrita Warring by nearly 22,000 votes and breaking the Warring family’s long grip on the seat. But as the 2027 Assembly elections approach, the real question is, can Dimpy turn this one win into lasting dominance, or will Gidderbaha swing again?
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A) AAP’s rising face heading confidently toward 2027.
B) Needs to prove his worth beyond one bypoll win.
A doctor by profession and politician by passion, Dr. Ajay Gupta of Aam Aadmi Party stunned everyone in 2022 by performing a political “operation” on Amritsar Central defeating veteran Om Parkash Soni, a former Deputy CM, with a clean 46% vote share. But three years later, the buzz in the streets is sharp, has the doctor-turned-MLA kept his stethoscope on the people’s pulse, or is the clinic now closed after the 2022 operation?
पेशे से डॉक्टर और जुनून से नेता, डॉ. अजय गुप्ता ने 2022 में अमृतसर सेंट्रल की राजनीति पर ऐसा “ऑपरेशन” किया कि कांग्रेस के पूर्व डिप्टी सी.एम. ओम प्रकाश सोनी को 46% वोटों के अंतर से हरा कर सबको चौंका दिया। लेकिन तीन साल बाद गलियों में चर्चा है, क्या ये डॉक्टर अब भी जनता की नब्ज़ पर हाथ रखे हुए हैं या 2022 का ऑपरेशन करके क्लिनिक बंद कर चुके हैं?
Back in the day, Lehra was the fortress of former Punjab CM Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, a Congress heavyweight. But in 2022, Barinder Kumar Goyal of AAP didn’t just win, he crushed the old guard. Goyal secured 60,058 votes, leading by a margin of 26,518, leaving veterans like Bhattal and SAD’s Gobind Singh Longowal far behind.
