Ludhiana, June 24 -- The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday retained the Ludhiana West assembly seat, with its candidate and Rajya Sabha member Sanjeev Arora defeating former state minister and Congress candidate Bharat Bhushan Ashu by 10,637 votes.

Arora secured 35,179 votes while Ashu won 24,542 votes followed by Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Jiwan Gupta and Shiromani Akali Dal's (SAD) Parupkar Singh Ghuman getting 20,323 votes and 8,203, respectively.

The bypoll was necessitated by the death of AAP legislator Gurpreet Bassi Gogi in January 2025. With this, the ruling AAP has 94 seats in the 117-member assembly, followed by Congress (16) with Shiromani Akali Dal (3), Bharatiya Janata party (2), Bahujan Samaj Party (1) and one Independen...