Srinagar, March 25

Northern Command chief Lt Gen Devraj Anbu today reviewed the overall security situation in the Kashmir valley and visited formations along the Line of Control (LoC).Accompanied by Chinar Corps Commander Lt Gen JS Sandhu, Lt General Anbu visited LoC formations and units, where he was briefed by commanders on the ground about the operational and logistic preparedness, a defence spokesman said here.“Commending the alertness and high morale of all troops deployed along the Line of Control, Lt General Anbu stressed maintaining sustained vigil and thwarting any attempts of infiltration from across,” the spokesman added.He said the Northern Command chief also took stock of the situation in the hinterland.“The Northern Command chief impressed upon everyone to continue targeting terrorist groups while safeguarding the interests of the people in close coordination with all security agencies and the civil administration,” the spokesman said. — PTI

Pratap Singh Bajwa.

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, March 23

The Rajya Sabha on Thursday witnessed brief uproar over the naming of Chandigarh airport, as the Opposition alleged that the BJP government in Haryana does not want to name it after Bhagat Singh.

During the Zero Hour, Ritabrata Banerjee (CPI-M) said there has been a controversy over the naming of the Chandigarh airport.

“The Punjab Government had agreed that the airpot will be named after Shaheed-E-Azam Bhagat Singh, (but) the Haryana Government, the Haryana Chief Minisger said ‘no’. They want to name the airport after Mangal Sein,” he said.

The CPI-M member said there were agitations yesterday to demand naming of the airport after Bhagat Singh. Today is the martyrdom day of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev.

Joining the issue, Congress leader Pratap Singh Bajwa also demanded that the airport be named after Bhagat Singh.

He said one side there is a demand to name the airport after the great freedom fighter, but on the other hand, the BJP wanted to name it after the party’s ex-Chief Minister.

As several opposition members were up on their feet and created an uproar, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi countered the allegations saying “we have never said it and nobody has said it. Its not proper to make such sweeping statements”.

The minister said Bhagat Singh was a martyr and was respected by everyone.

As the uproar continued, Deputy Chairman P J Kurien asked Naqvi to take note of the suggestion to which the minister said “yes”.

As senior JD-U member Sharad Yadav associated himself with the opposition demands, Leader of Opposition and Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad wanted to know from the Centre whether or not it has decided to name the airport after Bhagat Singh.

“Government has said that the suggestion has been taken note of. They will consider it,” Kurien said, adding Bhagat Singh was a great martyr and everbody respects him.

Partap Singh Bajwa of Congress also made a demand that two-minute silence should be observed on every March 23 before starting the business of the House. —PTI

The petitioner moved the top court after the Allahabad High Court rejected its petition. Tribune file photo

Satya Prakash

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, March 22

The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notices to the Center, secretary-generals of the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha, the Election Commission and the Attorney-General on a PIL challenging generous pension and allowances given to former legislators.

A Bench headed by Justice J Chelameswar decided to examine the issues raised in a PIL filed by Lok Prahari—an NGO—which wanted the top court to scrap pension and allowances, including lifetime free railway travel, given to former lawmakers.

The petitioner moved the top court after the Allahabad High Court rejected its petition.

The court issued notices to the respondents after petitioner’s  counsel Kamini Jaiswal pointed out that there were no guidelines for pension and allowances given to former MPs and MLAs.

Government employees had to contribute to the pension fund for availing the post-retirement benefits while former lawmakers’ pension was paid from the consolidated fund of India, i.e., taxpayers’ money, Jaiswal argued.

Before issuing notice on the PIL, the Bench said: “We have seen an era when MPs after being in public life for long have died as paupers.” However, it noted that facilities and allowances must be reasonable and not arbitrary.

“Politics has become the most lucrative profession even for the scum of the society,” Lok Praharinotices General Secretary and a former bureaucrat SN Shukla had told the Bench on Tuesday.

Questioning the law made by Parliament permitting former lawmakers giving generous allowances, the petitioner NGO alleged that the pension and perks for them should be withdrawn.

“While the governors do not have the facility of pension at all, an MP even for a day and his spouse get pension for life. While even serving judges of the Supreme Court and high courts do not have the facility of free air/train travel for their spouses even on official tours, ex-MPs enjoy unlimited free train travel for life in AC-II with a companion 365 days a year,” the petitioner alleged.

An ex-MP becomes an unwarranted burden on the citizens, the NGO said, adding, it was not their birthright to fleece the public they no longer represented.

BIS Chahal. File photo

Rajmeet Singh

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 21

The Punjab Government appointed Bharat Inder Singh Chahal as advisor to Chief Minister Amarinder Singh.

A close confidant of Amarinder Singh, Chahal, who will hold the rank of a Minister of State, has previously served as the his media advisor during his previous tenure as chief minister from 2002-2007 and was seen as the most powerful person around him.

(Follow The Tribune on Facebook; and Twitter @thetribunechd)After being defeated in the 2007 election, Amarinder and Chahal faced vigilance cases registered by Parkash Singh Badal-led SAD government. An old associate of Amarinder’s, Chahal would again be seen in the important role in the new Congress government.

Raveen Thukral, a senior journalist who steered Amarinder’s media campaign in the recent assembly polls, has also been appointed a media advisor in the rank of Minister of State (MoS).  He has been part of Amarinder’s core team since taking over as his media strategist in October 2016.

He will take over his new duties on Wednesday.

Besides, Khubi Ram, a retired IG of Punjab Police who has been the chief minsiter’s security liaison officer has been appointed security advisor to the chief minister. He will hold the rank of an ADGP.

Other key appointments are Capt Sandeep Sandhu, Maj Amardeep Singh and Karanpal Sekhon, all of who have been appointed as OSDs.

Tral, the hub of the terrorist outfit Hizbul Mujahideen, is difficult to protect. Undue attention towards the LoC is responsible for Tral being neglected. It needs a fresh approach and there are various hard and soft measures which can be combined together to create the right concept to tackle a problem area such as this.

Tral, a problem area, offers a security challenge because of its geographical location.

Avid television watchers in the country may be familiar with the name Tral. Every few weeks a ticker at the bottom of the television screens announces “terrorists trapped in Tral”. There are reports of “terrorist or Army action in Pulwama,” the district in which Tral tehsil falls. In recent times Tral has become notorious as the home town of Burhan Wani, the young terrorist leader whose death sparked the 2016 virtual Kashmir “Intifida.” His was one of the largest funeral gatherings seen in Kashmir in recent times.

Almost 20 years ago, I was the overall coordinator of all anti-terror operations in South Kashmir at the newly set up garrison at Avantipura, just above the National Highway, 25 kilometres from Srinagar towards Anantnag. Victor Force was (and still is) the formation of the Rashtriya Rifles (RR), which oversees the security of South Kashmir. Yet much more in the news for the last 27 years has been the wide open bowl with the high Wasterwan hills on one flank. Tral bowl, a tehsil of Pulwama has been a pain for many of us who have had the pleasure of serving at Avantipura, the headquarters of Victor Force (RR). 

For two years, Tral held me mentally captive. A virtual citadel east of the Highway, then there were insufficient troops to hold it and conduct operations from within the bowl. Whenever the situation heated up with terrorist criminal acts or incidents involving ambushes and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) on the Highway, we would conduct operations in Tral’s  various villages by moving troops from elsewhere. The troops approach through the wide open mouth of the bowl would be observed by the terrorists, giving them sufficient time to get away to the higher reaches leaving a few hideouts to be busted. 

Tral is the Hizbul Mujahideen’s centre of gravity in terms of resident terrorism. The Hizbul Mujahideen has not permitted any other major group to settle and operate here. Why does Tral occupy that special importance for the terror group? It is the ground which dictates the discourse, a typical tough infantryman’s territory. If you are driving from the Jawahar tunnel to Srinagar past Anantnag, Tral falls ahead of Bijbehara, closer to Avantipura but 10 kilometres to the east of the Highway. The bowl is shaped like a dog’s leg, with a large opening converging with the curvatures of the hills, north and south, towards the town itself. Thereafter, it takes a northerly turn for some kilometres and ends up after narrowing at the Wagad ridge, which on the other side leads to the Khreuh bowl. Further behind Tral town loom the heights of the ridgeline emanating from Aru, close to Pahalgam. This mountainous area has beautiful meadows, occupied by nomadic Bakarwals during summer. 

Because of the problem of logistics, there is no deployment of the Army here. There is no communication artery in this virgin country. In this area, the Al Firan had initially kidnapped five foreign tourists in 1995 and kept them in captivity. The book The Meadow, by Adrian Levy Scot and Cathy Scott-Clark, based upon the incident and the subsequent events, describes the meadows and the ground between Tral and Aru in detail. It is suspected that the hideouts of the Tral terrorists exist in these meadows and kothas of the shepherds. In Army’s language, just conducting operations on a hunch and without solid intelligence is called “jungle bashing”. It is exhausting to send out a large body of troops into no-man’s land, hoping there will be contact with errorists. Even if you score a couple of successes, taking it beyond that is never possible unless you occupy the area with troops in the form of a grid of posts and picquets. Sooner than later, terrorists will reoccupy the area. 

Tral is supported by geography. From the bowl the alignment to Pahalgam, Amarnath shrine and down to the Mahadeo Ridge, a swathe of mountainous territory which remains unoccupied offers the finest potential for hideouts, training camps and rest bases for terrorists in summer. Just around Wagad (see map), for many years the infamous Hizbul Mujahideen tactical radio control station “Muslim”, functioned with impunity. Its voice carried far and wide, coordinating the terrorist activities all over the Valley, including infiltration, emplacement of IEDs and even criminal acts. The advent of mobile technology ended Muslim’s rule of the air waves. From Victor Force, we planned and executed many a foray into the mountains around Wagad and even dropped troops by helicopter to get hold of Muslim. Apart from disturbing Muslim’s comfort, we could not get him. Once we did manage to destroy some equipment but it was back on air with vengeance, cocking a snook at us.

Some of the most daring operations of the RR and the Special Forces have been conducted in the Tral bowl. In the mid 1990s, the Army was deployed in the Tral tehsil but subsequent priorities saw change and a few companies of the BSF moved in and out a few times. In 2002, the newly raised 42 RR took over responsibility of the tehsil with six operating bases hugging the lower heights from where the climb to the higher reaches commenced. The unit has been involved in some very high-intensity encounters. On January 27, 2015 the then Commanding Officer of 42 RR, Colonel Munindra Nath Rai, was killed in an operation in which he was leading from the front with his quick-reaction team. Recently, Major Rishi was seriously injured while tackling terrorists holed up in a house.

I knew Tral extremely well but regret today that somehow in my own tenure in command of the Valley I failed to tackle the tehsil due to undue attention towards the LoC. Tral needs a fresh approach and there are various hard and soft measures which can be combined to create the right concept to tackle a problem area such as this.  

Lastly, the tehsil should not be treated as a basket case because of its notorious past and link with Burhan Wani. Tral may have given quite a few terrorists to the Hizbul, but it has given many more steadfast and patriotic soldiers to the JAK Light Infantry regiment of the Indian Army — this is what must be kept in mind while approaching it. This challenge should have been taken up a long time ago. 

Army personnel of India and Nepal participate in a joint military exercise. Tribune Photo

Our Correspondent

Pithoragarh, March 16

The 14-day military exercise between Indian and Nepalese armies continued for the ninth day today. Under Surya Command of Punchsul brigade of Indian Army, security personnel took the trouble in landing at the bases of terrorists to destroy these and also undertook training on how trapped can be rescued during natural disaster in hilly regions.“Personnel from both armies displayed skills to rescue the trapped civilians from terrorist-affected places and used helicopters to land at terrorist bases and destroyed these. Besides, they also showcased strategy to evacuate people injured by terrorists or natural disasters,” states a press release issued by the Army.The joint exercise, which began on March 7, will concluded on March 20.

Brahm Mohindra has been allotted Health portforlio. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 16

Capt Amarinder Singh will hold the portfolios of home and vigilance, Brahm Mohindra health, medical education and parliamentary affairs, Navjot Singh Sidhu local government and Manpreet Badal will be in charge of the finance ministry.On the advice of Amarinder, who was sworn in on Thursday, Governor VP Singh Badnore allotted portfolios to the newly inducted ministers.Announcing this here, a spokesperson of the Chief Minister’s Office said Amarinder would hold the portfolios of general administration, personnel, home affairs and justice, vigilance and all other departments not assigned to any other minister.

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Cabinet Minister Brahm Mohindra has been given the portfolios of health and family welfare, research and medical education and parliamentary affairs.Navjot Singh Sidhu has been allotted the portfolios of local government and tourism and cultural affairs, archives and museums.Manpreet Singh Badal has been assigned the departments of finance, planning and employment generation.The departments of forests, printing and Stationery, and welfare of SCs and BCs would be looked after by Cabinet Minister Sadhu Singh Dharamsot.Cabinet Minister Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa has been given the charge of rural development and panchayats and water supply and sanitation.Cabinet Minister Rana Gurjit Singh had been allotted the portfolios of irrigation and power.Cabinet Minister Charanjit Singh Channi has been allotted technical education and industrial training.Aruna Chaudhary, Minister of State (Independent Charge), has been assigned the portfolios of higher education and school education. Another Minister of State (Independent Charge) Razia Sultana has been allotted the portfolios of PWD (B&R), social security and development of women and children.

Punjab cabinet minister Manpreet Singh Badal along with his wife after oath taking ceremony in Chandigarh on Thursday. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan

Sanjeev Singh Bariana & PTI

Chandigarh, March 16

Newly inducted Punjab Cabinet Minister Manpreet Singh Badal today said priority of the Amarinder Singh-led Congress government will be to restore the “lost glory” of the state.”Restoring Punjab’s lost glory is what we will work for,” Manpreet, the estranged nephew of ex-Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, told reporters here after taking oath as state Cabinet minister.(Follow The Tribune on Facebook; and Twitter @thetribunechd)Manpreet, who had served as the finance minister in the SAD-BJP government in 2007, said the Congress government’s priority would be to “bring the state’s economy, which has been completely devastated under the SAD-BJP regime, back on track”.

“We are committed to bringing the state back on the path of growth and development,” he said.Replying to a question, the Cabinet minister indicated that some of the “lopsided” policies of the previous SAD-BJP government will be undone by the Congress government.”Many things will be undone… We want to restore Punjab’s pride, which has gone missing. When I was a boy, there used to be a spring in our step as Punjab was right there on the top. We want to restore that,” he said.Manpreet, who won from Bathinda-Urban Assembly constituency, said education, health, improving the lot of farmers, getting investments for the state, urban development to improve the infrastructure, are some of the areas which will be immediate focus areas of the present government.”We are committed to improve the per capita income of our people and generate new avenues of employment,” he said.Manpreet also said the Congress government is committed to eliminating the drug menace in the state.”We are also committed to ending the VIP culture,” he said.Earlier in the day, Amarinder Singh (75) was sworn in as the 26th Chief Minister of Punjab along with nine ministers, including Navjot Singh Sidhu and Manpreet Badal.The Congress stormed to power in Punjab after a gap of 10 years by winning 77 seats in the 117-member Assembly.

Channi says no to red beacon

Keeping his word of going in for glamour free role as a cabinet minister, Charanjit Channi who is likely to get Technical Education portfolio in the Capt Amarinder Singh government, on Thursday ordered removal of red beacon from his official car.Speaking to The Tribune after the swearing-in ceremony at the Governor House, Channi said, “I am driving to the Punjab secretariat in my car without the official red light. I have always told my voters that I am one among them and will stay with them like they are.”Speaking to a small group of his supporters, Channi said, “I come from a very common background. I have seen how power is associated with symbols like red beacon, security guards and number of vehicles behind a minister. I will like to keep the entire business as simple as I have always promised.”

THE PUNJAB VICTORY UNDERSCORES A CRITICAL LESSON FOR THE CONGRESS: EMPOWERING REGIONAL SATRAPS IS THE ONLY WAY TO REVIVE ITS PAN­INDIA FORTUNES

In handing down a resounding victory to the Congress, Punjab has lived up to its time-tested electoral record of decisive mandates. And, the comeback captain in this hard-fought election is Amarinder Singh who not only made the most of antiincumbency ire against the 10-year rule of the Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP combine but also fended off a stiff challenge from the Aam Aadmi Party that had fancied itself as a disruptor in the state’s binary politics.

SANJEEV SHARMA/HTCaptain Amarinder Singh acknowledging Congress’ win at his residence in Chandigarh on Saturday.

By all accounts, the election results are far better for the erstwhile scion of Patiala royalty that even his own party had foreseen. Against the Uttar Pradesh disaster, a spectacular showing in Punjab is a “sanjeevani” that will keep alive the Congress’ hope for a revival in national politics ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. For the grand old party it also underscores a critical lesson: Empowering regional satraps is the only way to revive its pan-India fortunes. It may be tempting to interpret the Punjab triumph as an example of Singh’s remarkable luck. After all, he had presided over two back-to-back assembly debacles (2007 and 2012) before resurrecting himself from the footnote to the frontline with a Lok Sabha win from Amritsar in 2014.

Truth be told, it’s a feat pulled off largely by Singh’s charisma and credentials as a gritty fighter. His political heft had no match in Arvind Kejriwal’s party, which, in hindsight, was punching way above its weight.

While tapping into the mother lode of anger against the ruling Badals, Singh, as campaigner-in-chief for the Congress, deftly made the most of AAP’s mistakes. He made political corruption his chief plank. He focused on a development pitch, with a “fix-the-broken-Punjab” narrative.

AAP, the rookie party, in contrast, promised to jail the Badal within four weeks of coming to power — the centrepiece of the party’s negative campaign that eventually didn’t go well with aspiration-bound Punjabis. But, AAP lost the plot by its dalliance with Sikh radicals, some of them avowedly Khalistanis, in its zeal to mop up the antiAkali vote.

Crucially, Kejriwal blundered by staying at the home of a former terrorist. In a state where the dark 1980s are never a distant past, such a risky gambit and a bomb blast on the eve of polling day, revived old fears. The violence-weary voters, particularly the Hindus who are 43% of the electorate, plumped for the Congress. That also helps explain why the Modi magic didn’t work even in BJP bastions in urban Punjab. The saffron party was reduced to its worst ever tally.

Singh’s unambiguous and tough stand on Punjab’s river waters also went down well in Malwa, an Akali citadel that had emerged as ground zero for AAP’s surge. While his resignation from the Lok Sabha against the Supreme Court ruling on the contentious Sutlej Yamuna Link canal bolstered his standing among the Sikh peasantry, he skilfully used the emotive interstate issue to focus on Kejriwal’s Haryana roots and labelled him an “outsider”.

The Akalis’ had their share of political missteps. Their last-minute deal with the controversial Dera Sacha Sauda backfired and drove the peasantry into Singh’s arms. Not surprisingly, not just sprawling Malwa with 69 of 117 seats, other regions of Doaba and Majha too turned out to the rich hunting ground for the Congress and a Waterloo for both the Akalis and AAP — to the uttter delight of Amarinder Singh on his 75th birthday.

A Congress supporter in a jubilant mood after party win in Punjab Assembly election on Saturday in Chandigarh. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan

Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH

The following is the full list of the candidates of all three major parties/alliances in Punjab — SAD-BJP, Congress and Aam Aadmi Party+LIP.Total seats: 117

Total seats: 117

Leads/Wins	SAD+	Congress	Aam Aadmi Party+
117	18	77	22

The declared winners are marked in red:  

	Constituency	Aam Aadmi Party	Congress	Akali Dal-BJP
1	Abohar	Atul Nagpal 13888	Sunil Kumar Jakhar 51812	Arun Narang (BJP) 55091
2	Adampur (SC)	Hans Raj Rana 25239	Mohinder Singh Kaypee 37530	Pawan Kumar Tinu 45229
3	Ajnala	Rajpreet Singh Randhawa 12749	Harpartap Singh Ajnala 61378	Amarpal Singh Bonny 42665
4	Amargarh	Jaswant Singh (LIP) 34835	Surjoot Singh Dhiman 49473	Iqbal Singh Jhundan 37937
5	Amloh	Gurpreet Singh Bhatti 30573	Randeep Singh Nabha 39669	Gurpreet S Raju Khanna 35723
6	Amritsar Central	Dr Ajay Gupta 7171	Om Parkash Soni 51242	Tarun Chugh (BJP) 30126
7	Amritsar East	Sarabjot Singh Dhanjal 14715	Navjot Singh Sidhu 60477	Rajesh Hani (BJP) 17668
8	Amritsar North	Manish Agarwal 7567	Sunil Datti 38308	Anil Joshi (BJP) 31811
9	Amritsar South	Inderbir Singh Nijjer 24923	Inderbir Bolaria 47581	Gurpartap Singh Tikka 16596
10	Amritsar West (SC)	Balwinder Singh Sahota 24731	Raj Kumar Verka 52271	Rakesh Gill (BJP) 25424
11	Anandpur Sahib	Sanjiv Gautam 30304	Rana Kanwarpal Singh 60800	Parminder Sharma (BJP) 36919
12	Atam Nagar	Simarjeet S Bains (LIP) 53421	Kamaljit Singh Karwal 36508	Gurmeet Singh Kular 14138
13	Attari (SC)	Jaswinder Singh Jahangir 22558	Tarsem Singh DC 55335	Gulzar Singh Ranike 45133
14	Baba Bakala (SC)	Dalbir Singh Tong 39378	Santokh Singh Bhalaipur 45965	Malkiat Singh 38265
15	Baghapurana	Capt Gurbinder Singh Kang 41418	Darshan Singh Brar 48668	Teerath Singh Mahla 41283
16	Balachaur	Brig Raj Kumar 21656	Ch Darshan Lal Mangepur 49558	Nand Lal 29918
17	Balluana (SC)	Simarjit Singh 22464	Nathu Ram 65607	Parkash Singh Bhatti 50158
18	Banga (SC)	Harjot Kaur  43363	Satnam Singh Kainth 13408	Sukhwinder ‘Sukhi’ 45256
19	Barnala	Meet Hayer 47606	Kewal Singh Dhillon 45174	Surinderpal Singh Sibia 31111
20	Bassi Pathana (SC)	Santokh Singh Salana 37273	Gurpreet Singh GP 47319	Darbara Singh Guru 24852
21	Batala	Gurpreet Singh Waraich 34302	Ashwani Sekhri 42032	Lakhbir Singh Lodhi Nangal 42517
22	Bathinda Rural (SC)	Rupinder Kaur 51572	Harvindor Singh Laddi 28939	Amit Rattan 40794
23	Bathinda Urban	Deepak Bansal 45462	Manpreet Singh Badal 63942	Sarup Chand Singla 37177
24	Bhadaur (SC)	Parimal Singh 57095	Joginder Panjgraian 26615	Balvir Singh Ghunas 36311
25	Bhoa (SC)	Vinod Kumar 3767	Joginder pal Singh 67865	Seema Kumari (BJP) 40369
26	Bholath	Sukhpal Singh Khaira   48873	Ranjit Singh 5923	Yuvraj Bhupinder Singh 40671
27	Bhucho Mandi (SC)	Master Jagseer Singh 50960	Pritam Kotbhai 51605	Harpreet Singh 44025
28	Budhlada (SC)	Principal Budhram  52265	Ranjit Kaur Bhatti 50989	Nishan Singh 50477
29	Chabbewal (SC)	Raman Kumar 20505	Dr Raj Kumar 57857	Sohan Singh Thandal 28596
30	Chamkaur Sahib (SC)	Dr Charanjit Singh 48752	Charanjit Singh Channi 61060	Nirmal Singh 31452
31	Dakha	HS Phoolka 58923	Major Bhaini 28571	Manpreet Singh Ayali 31452
32	Dasuya	Balbir Kaur Phull 16330	Arun Dogra 56527	Sukhjeet Kaur Sahi (BJP) 38889
33	Dera Baba Nanak	Gurpartap Singh 17222	Sukhjinder S Randhawa 60385	Sucha Singh Langah 59191
34	Dera Bassi	Sarabjit Kaur 33150	Deepinder Dhillon 60385	NK Sharma 70792
35	Dharamkot	Ranjodh Singh Sra  34615	Sukhjit Singh Kaka 63238	Tota Singh 41020
36	Dhuri	Jasvir Singh Sekhon 46536	Dalvir Singh Goldi 49347	Hari Singh 28611
37	Dinanagar (SC)	Joginder Chhina 10258	Aruna Chaudhary 72176	V.D. Dhupad (BJP) 40259
38	Dirba (SC)	Harpal Singh Cheema 46434	Ajaib Singh Rataul 44789	Gulzar Singh 44777
39	Faridkot	Gurdit Singh Sekhon 39367	Kushaldeep Singh Dhillon 51026	Parambans Singh Ramona 32612
40	Fatehgarh Churian	Gurvinder Singh Shampura 14665	Tript Rajinder Bajwa 54348	Nirmal Singh Kahlon 52349
41	Fatehgarh Sahib	Lakhbir Singh Rai 29393	Kuljeet Singh Nagra 58205	Didar Singh Bhatti 34338
42	Fazilka	Samarbir Singh Sidhu 16404	Davinder Ghubaya 39276	Surjit Kumar Jyani (BJP) 39011
43	Ferozpur City	Narinder Singh Sandha 16202	Parminder Singh Pinky 67559	Sukhlal Singh Nannu (BJP) 37972
44	Ferozpur Rural (SC)	Mohan Singh Phalianwala 32011	Satkar Kaur 71037	Joginder Singh Jindu 49657
45	Garhshankar	Jai Kishan Singh Rodi 41720	Lov Kumar Goldi 31909	Surinder Singh Bhullewal 40070
46	Ghanaur	Anu Randhawa 23188	Madan Lal Jalalpur 65965	Harpreet Kaur Mukhmailpur 29208
47	Gidderbaha	Jagdeep Sandhu 25334	Amrinder Raja Warring 63500	Hardeep S Dimpy Dhillon 47288
48	Gill (SC)	Jeewan Sanghwal 59286	Kuldeep Singh Vaid 67927	Darshan Singh Shivalak 46476
49	Gurdaspur	Amarjeet Singh Chahal 6949	Barjinder Singh Pahra 67709	Gurbachan Singh Babbehali 38753
50	Guruharsahai	Malkiat Singh Thind 14282	Rana Gurmeet Sodhi 62787	Vardev Singh Mann 56991
51	Hoshiarpur	Paramjit Sachdeva 27481	Sham Sunder Arora 49951	Tikshan Sood (BJP) 38718
52	Jagraon (SC)	Sarabjit Kaur Manke 61521	Malkiat Singh Dakha 35945	Amarjit Kaur Sahoke 33295
53	Jaitu (SC)	Master Baldev Singh 45344	Mohd. Sadique 35351	Suba Singh Badal 33064
54	Jalalabad	Bhagwant Mann 56771	Ravneet Singh Bittu 31539	Sukhbir Singh Badal 75281
55	Jalandhar Cantt.	Harkrishan Singh Walia 25912	Pargat Singh 59349	Sarabjit Singh Makkar 30225
56	Jalandhar Central	Dr Sanjeev Kumar Sharma 15269	Rajinder Berri 55518	Manoranjan Kalia (BJP) 31440
57	Jalandhar North	Gulshan Sharma 13386	Avtar Singh Sanghera 69715	K.D. Bhandari (BJP) 37424
58	Jalandhar West (SC)	Darshan Lal Bhagat 15364	Sushil Kumar Rinku 53983	Mohinder Bhagat (BJP) 36649
59	Jandiala (SC)	Harbhajan Singh 33912	Sukhwinder Singh Danny 53042	Dalbir Singh 34620
60	Kapurthala	Sukhwant Singh Padda 18076	Rana Gurjeet Singh 56378	Paramjit Singh Pamma 27561
61	Kartarpur (SC)	Chandan Grewal 29981	Chaudhary Surinder Singh 46729	Seth Satpal Mall 40709
62	Khadoor Sahib	Bhupinder Singh Bittu 28644	Ramanjit Singh Sikki 64666	Ravinder Singh Brahmpura 47611
63	Khanna	Anil Dutt Phalli 35099	Gurkirat Singh Kotli       52159	Ranjit Singh Talwandi 31845
64	Kharar	Kanwar Sandhu 54171	Jagmohan Kang 52159	Ranjit Singh Gill 46807
65	Khem Karan	Capt Bikramajit Pahuwindia 6568	Sukhpal Singh Bhullar 37326	Virsa Singh Valtoha 33895
66	Kotkapura	Kultar Singh Sandhwa 47401	Harnirpal Singh Kuku 37326	Mantar Singh Brar 33895
67	Lambi	Jarnail Singh 21254	Capt Amarinder Singh 43605	Parkash Singh Badal 66375
68	Lehra	Jasvir Kudani 25089	Rajinder Kaur Bhattal 38735	Parminder Singh Dhindsa 65550
69	Ludhiana Central	Vipan Kaka Sood (LIP) 25001	Surinder Singh Dawar 47871	Gurudev Sharma Devi (BJP) 27391
70	Ludhiana East	Daljeet Singh Grewal 41429	Sanjay Talwar 43010	Ranjit Singh Dhillon 41313
71	Ludhiana North	Randhir Singh (LIP) 20387	Rakesh Pandey 44864	Praveen Bansal (BJP) 39732
72	Ludhiana South	Balwinder S Bains (LIP) 53955	Bhupinder Sidhu 23038	Hira Singh Gabria 20554
73	Ludhiana West	Ahbaab Singh Grewal 30106	Bharat Bhushan Ashu 66627	Kamal Chetli (BJP) 22620
74	Majitha	Himmat Singh Shergill 10252	Sukhjinder Lalli Majithia 42919	Bikram Singh Majithia 65803
75	Malerkotla	Arshad Dali 17635	Razia Sultana 58982	Mohammad Owais 46280
76	Malout (SC)	Baldev Singh Azad 38663	Ajaib Singh Bhatti 49098	Darshan Singh Kotfatta 44109
77	Mansa	Nazar Singh 70586	Manju Bansal 50117	Jagdeep Singh Nakai 44232
78	Maur	Jagdev Singh Kamalu 62282	Harminder Singh Jassi 23087	Janmeja Singh Sekhon 47605
79	Mehal Kalan (SC)	Kulwant Singh Pandhuri 57551	Harchand Kaur 25688	Ajit Singh Shant 30487
80	Moga	Ramesh Grover 50593	Harjot Kamal 52357	Barjinder Singh 36587
81	Mukerian	Sulakhan Jaggi 17005	Rajneesh Kumar 56787	Arunesh Shakar (BJP) 20542
82	Muktsar	Jagdeep Singh Brar 33201	Karan Kaur Brar 36914	Kanwarjeet S Rozy Barkandi 44894
83	Nabha (SC)	Dev Mann 41866	Sadhu Singh Dharamsot 60861	Kabir Dass 32482
84	Nakodar	Sarwan Singh Hayer 37834	Jagbir Brar 35633	Gurpartap Singh Wadala 56241
85	Nawanshahr	Charanjit Channi  32341	Angad Saini 38197	Jarnail Singh Wahid 34874
86	Nihal Singhwala (SC)	Manjit Singh Bilaspuri  67313	Rajwinder Kaur Bhagike 39739	SR Kler 34865
87	Pathankot	Rajkumar Mahajan 6036	Amit Vij 56383	Ashwani Sharma (BJP) 45213
88	Patiala	Dr Balbir Singh 20179	Capt Amarinder Singh 72586	Gen JJ Singh 11677
89	Patiala Rural	Karanvir Singh Tiwana 41662	Brahm Mohindra 68891	Satbir Singh Khatra 30784
90	Patti	Ranjit Singh Cheema 18489	Harminder Singh Gill 64617	Adaish Partap Singh Kairon 56254
91	Payal (SC)	Gurpreet Singh Lapran 36280	Lakhvir Singh Lakha 57776	Ishar Singh Meharbaan 33044
92	Phagwara (SC)	Jarnail Singh Nangal 32374	Joginder Singh Mann 43470	Som Parkash (BJP) 45479
93	Phillaur (SC)	Swaroop Singh Khadiana 35779	Vikramjit Chaudhary  37859	Baldev Singh Khaira 41336
94	Qadian	Kanwalpreet Singh Kaki 14657	Fatehjung Bajwa 62596	Sewa Singh Sekhwan 50859
95	Raikot (SC)	Jagtar S Jagga Hissowal 48245	Dr Amar Singh 37631	Inder Iqbal Singh Atwal 29019
96	Raja Sansi	Jagjot Singh Dhillon 13212	Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria 59628	Veer Singh Lapoke 53901
97	Rajpura	Ashutosh Joshi 26542	Hardyal Singh Kamboj 59107	Harjeet Singh Grewal (BJP) 19151
98	Rampura Phul	Manjit Singh Sidhu 32693	Gurpreet Singh Kangar 55269	Sikander Singh Maluka 44884
99	Rupnagar	Amarjeet Singh 58994	Brinder Dhillon 35287	Daljit Singh Cheema 31903
100	S.A.S.Nagar	Narinder Shergil 38971	Balbir Singh Sandhu 66844	Tejinder Pal Singh Sidhu 30031
101	Sahnewal	Harjot Singh Bains 39570	Satwinder Bitti 58633	Sharanjit Singh Dhillon 63184
102	Samana	Jagtar Singh Rajla 28884	Rajinder Singh 62551	Surjit Singh Rakhra 52702
103	Samrala	Sarbans Singh Manki 40925	Amrik Singh Dhillon 51930	Santa Singh Umaidpur 38114
104	Sangrur	Dinesh Bansal 36498	Vijay Inder Singla 67310	Parkash Chand Garg 34510
105	Sanaur	Kuldeep Kaur Tohra 33179	Harinder Singh Mann 53997	Harinder Pal Chandumajra 58867
106	Sardulgarh	Sukhwinder Singh Mann 38102	Ajit Inder Singh Mofar 50563	Dilraj Singh Bhunder 59420
107	Shahkot	Dr Amarjit Singh Thind 41010	Harvinder Laddi 42008	Ajit Singh Kohar 46913
108	Sham Chaurasi (SC)	Dr Ravjot Singh 42797	Pawan Adia 46612	Mohinder Kaur Josh 24671
109	Shutrana (SC)	Palwinder Kaur 32037	Nirmal Singh 58008	Vaninder Kaur Loomba 39488
110	Sri Hargobindpur (SC)	Amarpal Singh 24294	Balwinder Singh Laddi 57489	Manjit Singh 39424
111	Sujanpur	Kulbhushan Minhas 2831	Amit Manto 30209	Dinesh Singh Babbu (BJP) 48910
112	Sultanpur Lodhi	Sajjan Singh Cheema 28017	Navtej Singh Cheema 41843	Dr Upinderjit Kaur 33681
113	Sunam	Aman Arora 72815	Daman Thind Bajwa 30518	Gobind Singh Longowal 42508
114	Talwandi Sabo	Prof Baljinder Kaur 54553	Khushbaj Singh Jatana 35260	Jeet Mohinder S Sidhu 34473
115	Tarn Taran	Wrestler Kartar Singh 22950	Dharamvir Agnihotri 59794	Harmeet Singh Sandhu 45165
116	Urmar	Jasveer Singh Gill 32445	Sangat Singh Gilzian 51477	Arvinder Singh Rasoolpur 36523
117	Zira	Gurpreet Singh Gora 30947	Kulbir Singh Zira 69899	Hari Singh Zira 46828