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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | From Amritsar’s 'Padwoman' to Mobile Repair Shop Owner: Meet AAP's 'Giant Killers' in Punjab -Vivek Gupta

From Amritsar’s 'Padwoman' to Mobile Repair Shop Owner: Meet AAP's 'Giant Killers' in Punjab -Vivek Gupta

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published Published on Mar 14, 2022   modified Modified on Mar 15, 2022

-TheWire.in

The widespread victories of lesser-known candidates in Punjab reveals voters’ entrenched anger with traditional parties in the state – an anger which AAP was able to capitalise on.

Chandigarh: Even as the election verdict in Punjab sent shock waves across the country and beyond, it was less known faces that stole the show by defeating the bigwigs in the state.

One of the major upsets of the election was the massive defeat of incumbent Congress chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi from Bhadaur in the Barnala district. Channi was defeated by more than 34,000 votes by Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Labh Singh Ugoke, who runs a small mobile repair shop in the constituency.

Ugoke’s father is a driver while his mother works as a sweeper in a government school. As per his election affidavit, a 2014 Hero Honda motorcycle is all he owns.

In the run up to the election, Channi claimed to be a “gareeb ghar ka beta” (the son of a poor home) while Ugoke centred his campaign around unmasking Channi as a “fake aam aadmi (common man)”.

“This election verdict has proved beyond doubt who was actually fake and who was the real aam aadmi,” Ugoke told The Wire after his emphatic victory.

When asked “Who is the real Labh Singh,” he responded by saying that he belongs to a poor mazdoor (labourer) family from Ugoke village in Barnala district. “My father worked for years in fields as a labourer, then as a driver later. I was in sixth grade when my mother began sweeping in a village school. She still goes there everyday. As a child, I often helped her in her work as well,” he said.

He said that while he was growing up, he wanted a job in the police or armed forces. “Later, I did a course in mobile repair and opened a shop in my own village. I also did a course in plumbing with the hope of getting a decent job in Middle Eastern countries, but could not manage traveling abroad,” he added.

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TheWire.in, 14 March, 2022, https://thewire.in/politics/from-amritsars-padwoman-to-mobile-repair-shop-owner-meet-aaps-giant-killers-in-punjab


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