Congress candidate Sher Singh Ghubaya from Ferozepur declared the winner from Ferozepur
Congress candidate Sher Singh Ghubaya from Ferozepur declared the winner from Ferozepur
Ferozepur, June 4, 2024: Congress candidate Sher Singh Ghubaya from Ferozepur has been declared as the winner of Ferozepur. He secured 266626 votes defeating the next AAP candidate Jagdeep Singh Kaka Brar, who got 263384 votes.
The other two candidates who too had a tough fight were – Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi (BJP) who got 255097, Nardev Singh Bobby Mann (SAD) polled 253645.
The total voters polled in Ferozepur were 1119167 (67.02%) – the second highest in Punjab on June 1. It was a 4-cornered contest among the four major political parties – AAP, Congress, SAD and BJP.
Earlier, Congress had played the card of the Rai Sikh community by fielding Sher Singh Ghubaya, who started his career as SAD MLA from Jalalabad in 1997 and after Zora Singh Mann’s death; he won in 2009 and 2014. But for the third time, he lost in 2019 from the Congress seat. Earlier, this seat was the master seat of SAD and the last was held by Sukhbir Singh Badal who defeated Sher Singh Ghubaya in the 2014 elections with a difference of 1,98,850 votes.
The voting trend shows that the voting was not for the party but for the candidates’ faces or the voters might have in mind that AAP already tried for two years, rejecting the SAD who broke the alliance with the BJP, The BJP candidate was a Congress leader and it was his first election in the change-over party and INDI block factor has worked as is also evident from the overall trend in its favour.
Despite AAP having 8 MLAs in the Ferozepur Lok Sabha constituency barring Abohar, AAP could not retain this seat but has given a tough fight, along with the other three parties SAD and BJP.
Rana Sodhi, 4-time MLA in 2002, 2007, 2012 and 2017 and one-time Sports Minister and Chief Whip of the CLP in Punjab, switched over to BJP but could not win, giving an unexpected fight to other candidates. But he has given a threatening fight, despite switching over the party. No doubt, there was a call from the farmers’ community who are camping at the Shambhu border to cast votes other than the BJP but even that got 255097 votes.
It looks that the community vote of Rai Sikh and Kamboj communities have been equally divided among the three candidates of SAD, BJP and Congress and Sher Singh Ghubaya got the lion’s share to become a winner in this fight.
