Meet Labh Singh Ugoke, A Mobile Repair Shop Owner Who Defeated CM Channi In Punjab Elections
With Aam Aadmi Party's clean sweep in Punjab assembly elections, the Congress party is down to its worst performance having been left in power in just two states on its own (Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan) and as a junior ally in Jharkhand and Maharashtra.
Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party has swept Punjab, garnering over 92 seats, the best-ever performance by any party in the state. The Aam Aadmi Party has won 92 seats out of the 117 seats in Punjab Assembly, followed by Congress (18) and Shiromani Akali Dal (3).
The AAP win in Punjab will be the party's first victory in the state and a marked improvement from its performance in the 2017 elections when it had finished second behind Congress which went into the polls this time, battling factionalism and anti-incumbency.
In his victory speech, Arvind Kejriwal said, ¡°You might think ¡®what can common do. Do you know who defeated the incumbent CM Charanjit Singh Channi? Labh Singh Ugoke, who works in a mobile repair shop. Labh Singh Ugoke¡¯s mother is a Safai Karamchari in a government school and his father works on a farm. Such a person has defeated Channi today. We have an ordinary AAP volunteer Jeevan Jyot Kaur who defeated both Sidhu and Bikram Singh Majithia. There is great power in the common people. If you challenge the common people, big people will be dethroned like this.¡±
Here¡¯s all you need to know about Labh Singh Ugoke who defeated Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi:
Who is Labh Singh Ugoke?
The 35-year-old Labh Singh Ugoke, the AAP candidate who defeated CM Charanjit Singh Channi in Bhadaur was born in 1987. Ugoke has studied till the 12th standard. After passing Class 12, Labh Singh took up a diploma course in mobile phone repair and opened a shop in his village. However, his shop has been closed for the last three years now.
Joined AAP in 2013
In 2013, Labh Singh Ugoke joined Aam Aadmi Party. After joining AAP full-time, he rose in the ranks, from Halka in-charge, to block and circle president.
As per his affidavit, Labh Singh Ugoke has mentioned as his property a Hero Honda motorcycle, which he had bought in 2014.
Biggest electoral upsets
After getting the ticket to contest from Bhadaur, Labh Singh Ugoke had claimed that he would make history by defeating Chief Minister Channi.?
On March 10, a mobile repair shop owner Labh Singh Ugoke who was hardly a name that made headlines anywhere, even in Punjab, has delivered one of the biggest electoral upsets that Congress has ever seen.
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