‘Badlaav’ in Gidderbaha: AAP pick Dimpy Dhillon beats Amrinder Singh Warring’s wife by record margin

The AAP’s campaign targeted Warring with the allegation that he had deserted the constituency. While Dhillon polled 71,198 votes, Amrita Warring received 49,397 votes and the BJP’s Manpreet Singh Badal got only 12,174 votes.

In the Lok Sabha polls, Gidderbaha overwhelmingly voted for Sarabjeet Singh Khalsa, who won the Faridkot seat as an independent MP. He received over 32,000 votes from the Gidderbaha segment alone. However, this time the AAP wave meant that Dhillon, who had lost the 2017 and 2022 elections to Raja Warring, emerged victorious.

Dhillon joined the AAP in August.

Manpreet Badal, who won the seat in 1995, 1997, 2002 and 2007 on an SAD ticket, came a poor third even though he had started his political career from Gidderbaha. His victory margin in 2007, over 18,000 votes, is now the second highest.

After the election results were announced on Saturday, Dhillon said, “It is people’s victory, not mine… I am here because of them, and I thank them humbly.”

He went to Gurdwara Guptsar Sahib to pay obeisance even while the counting was underway.

Dhillon kept leading right from round one, and by the end of round 13, he created history with a margin of 21,801 votes.

Voters indicated that they had voted for development and that they wanted issues such as sewage overflow and waterlogging to be addressed, with two more years left for the AAP government.