Lok Insaaf Party

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Lok Insaaf Party
AbbreviationLIP
President Simarjit Singh Bains
Chairman Balwinder Singh Bains
Founded28 October 2016 [1]
(8 years, 103 days ago)
Merged into Indian National Congress
Alliance
  • AAP (2016-2018)
  • PDA (2018-2022)
Seats in  Lok Sabha 0/543
Seats in  Rajya Sabha
0 / 245
Seats in  Punjab Legislative Assembly
0 / 117

Lok Insaaf Party was founded in 2016 [1] by Simarjit Singh Bains.

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It contested 2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election on five seats in alliance with Aam Aadmi Party. [2]

2017 Punjab assembly election

LIP contested 2017 Punjab assembly election on five seats. It formed coalition with Aam Aadmi Party. [3] Party able to get only two seats out of five. It got 26.46% votes in five seats but 1.22% overall votes. Simarjit Singh Bains won Atam Nagar Assembly Constituency and Balwinder Singh Bains won the Ludhiana South Assembly Constituency.[ citation needed ]

2019 general election

In the 2019 Indian general election, the party contested on three Lok Sabha seats in Punjab as a member of Punjab Democratic Alliance; however, the party never won any seat. [4] These were:

References

  1. 1 2 Bains brothers float Lok Insaaf Party
  2. ↑ "Lok Insaaf party leader held, heroin seized". The Indian Express. 24 March 2018. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  3. ↑ "Bains brothers announced coalition with AAP". The Indian Express. 27 January 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  4. ↑ "PDA will contest on 9 seats". Business Standard India. 26 February 2019.
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