Jai Krishan Singh Rouri | |
|---|---|
| Deputy Speaker of Punjab Assembly | |
| Assumed office 30 June 2022 | |
| Speaker | Kultar Singh Sandhwan |
| Preceded by | Ajaib Singh Bhatti |
| Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly for Garhshankar Assembly constituency | |
| In office 11 March 2017 –Incumbent | |
| Preceded by | Surinder Singh Bhulewal Rathan |
| Majority | Aam Aadmi Party |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 January 1983 Garhshankar,Punjab,India |
| Political party | Aam Aadmi Party |
| Children | 2 |
| Residence(s) | Garhshankar,Hoshiarpur |
| Occupation | Politician,agriculture,photographer |
| Website | Members |
Jai Krishan Singh Rouri is Deputy Speaker of Punjab Assembly. He is second term MLA in the Punjab Legislative Assembly representing the Garhshankar Assembly constituency in Punjab,India,serving since 2017. He is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party. He won a second consecutive term in the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election by margin of 4179 votes.
He worked as a farmer and a wedding photographer in Garhshankar. [1] [2]
He contested the 2017 Punjab Assembly elections on the Aam Aadmi Party ticket and defeated Surinder Singh Bhulewal Rathan of Shiromani Akali Dal. In 2022 he won in multi cornered election by a margin of more than 4000 votes. [3] On 30 June 2022 he was elected as Deputy Speaker of Punjab Vidhan Sabha.
He represents the Garhshankar Assembly constituency as MLA in Punjab Legislative Assembly since 2017. He was re-elected for a second term in 2022. [4] 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. [5]
On 30 June 2022,he was unanimously elected as the Deputy speaker in the 16th Punjab Assembly. AAP member Baljinder Kaur had proposed his name. [1]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAP | Jai Kishan Singh Rori | 41,720 | 33.50 | ||
| SAD | Surinder Singh Heer | 40,070 | 32.18 | ||
| INC | Lov Kumar Goldy | 31,909 | 25.62 | ||
| BSP | Bakhsish Singh | 6031 | 4.84 | ||
| CPI(M) | Harbhajan Singh | 2217 | 1.78 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1121 | 0.90 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 125658 | ||||
| Registered electors | 169,609 | [11] | |||
| AAP gain from SAD | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAP | Jai Kishan Singh Rori [12] | 32,341 | 26.41 | ||
| INC | Amarpreet Lally [13] | 28,162 | 22.99 | ||
| SAD | Surinder Singh Bhulewal Rathan | 25,430 | 20.76 | ||
| BJP | Nimisha Mehta | 24,735 | 20.2 | New | |
| Independent | Jang Bahadur Singh | 4,106 | 3.35 | ||
| Independent | Mohan Singh | 2,470 | 2.02 | ||
| CPI(M) | Mohinder Kumar | 1,189 | 0.97 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,078 | 0.88 | ||
| Majority | 4,179 | 3.42 | |||
| Turnout | |||||
| Registered electors | 175,287 | [14] | |||
| AAP hold | Swing | ||||
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