Amritpal Singh Wins Big in Punjab and Heads to Delhi for Oath as MP

Amritpal Singh, the head of Waris Punjab De, was escorted out of Dibrugarh jail in Assam by a team of Punjab Police on Friday morning. Singh is expected to take his oath as a Lok Sabha Member of Parliament in the national capital.

In the recent 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Singh contested and won as an independent candidate from the Khadoor Sahib parliamentary seat in Punjab. He secured a massive margin of 1,97,120 votes, defeating his nearest rival, Kulbir Singh Zira of Congress.

Singh was arrested by Punjab police in April last year after evading the police, and a stringent National Security Act was invoked against him. His parents, Tarsem Singh and Balwinder Kaur, and his wife Kirandeep Kaur, met him in Dibrugarh Central jail last month after his Lok Sabha win.

Voting for 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab was held on June 1 in the seventh phase of the Lok Sabha elections. The 2024 Lok Sabha elections took place from April 19 to June 1, in seven phases. The votes were counted and the results were declared on June 4, leading to the formation of the 18th Lok Sabha.

The BJP secured 240 seats, and the NDA won 292 seats out of 543 Lok Sabha seats. Congress, part of the INDIA bloc, secured 99 seats. The Samajwadi Party got 37 seats, while Trinamool Congress won 29 seats. DMK managed to win 22 seats.