Chandigarh, June 24 -- Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), in what is being seen as a crucial mid-term endorsement of its governance in Punjab, on Monday clinched a decisive victory in the Ludhiana West Assembly bypoll. The party's candidate, industrialist-turned-politician and sitting Rajya Sabha MP Sanjeev Arora, defeated Congress veteran and former Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu by a comfortable margin of 10,637 votes, reaffirming AAP's grip over urban Punjab, especially amid doubts following its drubbing in the Delhi Lok Sabha polls.
The win is not just a constituency-level triumph, but a symbolic milestone for AAP, which has been under pressure to prove its political resilience and administrative credibility ahead of the 2027 Punjab Assembly electio...