President Sukhbir Badal to form a committee to introspect the party's defeat.
President Sukhbir Badal to form a committee to introspect the party's defeat.
Congress will hold a meeting of its elected MLAs here tomorrow to elect the Congress Legislative Party leader.
The party won 40 seats in Malwa belt while AAP had to stay content with 18. The SAD-BJP won 9 seats in the region.
The Congress won 22 (of 25) seats in Majha belt and 15 (of 23) in the Doaba region.
Immediately after the win, upbeat Congress workers celebrated at Capt Amarinder Singh's residence here while there were celebrations at his main residence and hometown in Patiala.
In other towns including Amritsar, Jalandhar and Ludhiana, Congress workers celebrated, even applying 'gulal (colour)' on each others faces with Holi festival being round-the-corner and distributed 'ladoos' and broke into 'bhangra' dancing to the beats of traditional 'dhol'.
Singh thanked the people for the overwhelming support and also expressed gratitude to the Congress' central leadership and party workers.
"Committed to good governance, tackling drug menace, besides health and education will be priority," he said, spelling out his priorities.
Among key candidates of the Congress party who won included Singh from Patiala, where with a huge margin of 52,407 votes as he defeated his nearest rival AAP candidate Balbir Singh. while former army chief J J Singh came third position by securing 11,677 votes.
Navjot Singh Sidhu, who had switched over to the Congress recently from BJP, also registered a huge win from his Amritsar-East seat, which was earlier held by his wife Navjot Kaur.
Other prominent Congress candidates who won include Manpreet Singh Badal (Bathinda Urban), former captain of Indian hockeyh team Pargat Singh (Jalandhar Cantt), O P Soni (Amritsar Central) and Charanjit Singh Channi (Chamkaur Sahib).
However, senior leaders of the Congress who lost included former CM Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, who failed to win from her traditional seat Lehra losing to Cabinet Minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa, and Sunil Jakhar who lost from Abohar to BJP candidate Arun Narang.
Meanwhile, prominent among the Akali candidates who won included Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, who retained his traditional Lambi seat defeating Singh by 22,770 votes poliing 66,375 votes against the latter's 43,605 votes.
Deputy Chief Minister and SAD President Sukhbir Badal, Cabinet Ministers Bikram Singh Majithia and Parminder Singh Dhindsa also won their seats--Jalalabad, Majitha and Lehra, respectively.
AAP's prominent winners included H S Phoolka, who won from Dakha, Kanwar Sandhu from Kharar and Sukhpal Khaira from Bolath while the party's prominent losers included Bhagwant Mann (Jalalabad), Jarnail Singh (Lambi), Himmat Singh Shergill (Majitha) and Gurpreet Singh Ghuggi (Batala). (MORE)
(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)
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