The campaigning for the bypoll to the Chabbewal (reserved) Assembly seat ended on Monday evening. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate Ishank Chabbewal organised a big roadshow in the city while the BJP held a show of strength at the mandal level in support of its candidate Sohan Singh Thandal. The Congress held 11 public meetings in favour of its candidate Ranjit Kumar.
In the run-up to the byelection, the ruling AAP had already organised rallies of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, party convener Arvind Kejriwal, ministers and MLAs.
From the BJP’s side, former central ministers Vijay Sampla and Som Prakash, former Rajya Sabha member Shwet Malik, ex-minister Tikshan Sood and former MP Sushil Rinku had focused on small rallies and door-to-door campaign.
For the Congress, Leader of Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa, former CM Charanjit Singh Channi, former minister Sundar Sham Arora and MLA Rana Gurjeet Singh addressed rallies. They attacked AAP candidate’s father Dr Raj Chabbewal, who had shifted his loyalty to AAP to contest the Hoshiarpur parliamentary election.