Just 1,217 votes in kitty, Manpreet struggled to get votes in Gidderbaha
Not just in villages, BJP candidate Manpreet Badal, who lost his security deposit in the Gidderbaha bypoll, remained at third position in Gidderbaha town with just 1,217 votes.
However, AAP candidate Hardeep Singh Dimpy Dhillon, who won the bypoll, got the maximum 17,187 votes from Gidderbaha town, while Congress nominee Amrita Warring got 9,713 votes.
A perusal of the records revealed that Manpreet got fewer than 100 votes polled in each of the 37 polling booths in the town. Usually, it is considered that the BJP has a strong voter base in urban areas. A maximum 446 postal ballots went to Dimpy, while Amrita got 278 and Manpreet just 53.
In some villages, Manpreet did not even get 100 votes. On the other hand, Amrita got maximum votes from a few villages, which included Harike Kalan, Kaoni, Manianwala, Khunan Khurd and Lundewala.
In two large villages, Doda and Kotbhai, Dimpy got 4,832 and 4,289 votes, respectively, while Amrita got 2,783 and 3,386 votes, respectively.
After their defeats, both Amrita and Manpreet have claimed that they would remain active in the constituency. Dimpy polled 71,644 votes, Amrita 49,675 and Manpreet 12,227.
