Balj Kaur | |
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Member of Punjab Legislative Assembly [1] | |
Assumed office 2017 [2] | |
Preceded by | Jeetmohinder Singh Sidhu |
Constituency | Talwandi Sabo |
Personal details | |
Born | Jaga Ram Tirath Talwandi Sabo,Punjab | 14 September 1986
Political party | Aam Aadmi Party |
Spouse | Sukhraj Singh |
Parent(s) | Darshan Singh and Ranjit Kaur |
Baljinder Kaur is an Indian politician and member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly (MLA) representing Talwandi Sabo Assembly constituency. She is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party.
Kaur did her M. Phil. from Punjabi University,Patiala in 2009. Before entering politics she was a professor of English at Mata Gujri College at Fatehgarh Sahib. [3] She married Sukhraj Singh in February 2019;he is also a politician from Aam Aadmi Party. [4] She has one daughter.
In 2011 Kaur joined the Indian anti-corruption movement and in 2012 joined Aam Aadmi Party. The first time she contested bypoll election from Talwandi Sabo Assembly constituency in 2014 but lost the election. [5]
She was elected as the Member of Legislative Assembly in the 2017 election she defeated Jeetmohinder Singh of Shiromani Akali Dal with a margin of 19,293 votes.
In the 2019 Indian general election in Punjab she was declared the candidate from Bathinda Lok Sabha constituency by the party. [6] However she lost the election and stood at third place.
She was the president of the women's wing of AAP Punjab. [7]
The Aam Aadmi Party gained a strong 79% majority in the sixteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly by winning 92 out of 117 seats in the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. MP Bhagwant Mann was sworn in as Chief Minister on 16 March 2022. [10]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AAP | Baljinder Kaur | 54,553 | 42.67 | ||
INC | Khusbaz Singh Jatana | 35260 | 27.58 | ||
SAD | Jeetmohinder Singh Sidhu | 34473 | 26.96 | ||
BSP | Harjindar Singh Mithan | 1346 | 1.05 | ||
NOTA | None of the above | 578 | 0.45 | ||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 128426 | 85.99 | |||
Registered electors | 149,354 | [13] | |||
AAP gain from SAD | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AAP | Baljinder Kaur [14] | 48,753 | 37.04 | ||
INC | Khushbaz Singh Jatana [15] | ||||
SAD | |||||
NOTA | None of the above | ||||
Majority | 15252 | 11.58 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Registered electors | [16] | ||||
AAP hold |
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