Saravjit Kaur Manuke | |
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Member of Punjab Legislative Assembly | |
Assumed office 2017 | |
Preceded by | S. R. Kaler |
Constituency | Jagraon |
Deputy leader of opposition Punjab | |
In office May 2017 –11 March 2022 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Jagraon,Punjab,India | 25 July 1972
Political party | Aam Aadmi Party |
Saravjit Kaur Manuke (25 July 1972) is an Indian politician and the MLA in the Punjab Legislative Assembly representing the Jagraon Assembly constituency. She is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party. [1]
The first time she contested election in 2017 on the ticket of Aam Aadmi Party and won. In May 2017 she was elected Deputy Leader of Opposition [2] in Punjab Assembly.
She has M.Com and M.A. in Economics,degrees. [3]
Saravjit Kaur Manuke was employed in the teaching profession at the beginning of her career. She then quit her job and joined the Aam Aadmi Party,founded by prominent Indian politician Arvind Kejriwal.
She contested the Jagraon Assembly constituency from the Aam Aadmi Party in the 2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. [4] She won the elections for the first time. She defeated former Punjab state government minister,vice-president of the Punjab state Congress committee and veteran politician Malkit Singh Dakha,who was twice elected as an MLA in the Punjab assembly.
Saravjit Kaur Manuke received 61,521 votes,which is 45.69% of the total votes cast. [5]
Aam Aadmi Party emerged as the main opposition party in the Punjab Assembly elections of 2017. Aam Aadmi Party secured 20 seats in the Punjab Assembly in the Punjab Assembly elections of 2017. Saravjit Kaur Manuke was elected by the Aam Aadmi Party in Punjab as deputy leader of AAP legislative party during the term of the Fifteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly. [6] During her time in office,Harpal Singh Cheema was the Leader of the Opposition in Punjab. [2]
In June 2021,Manuke held hunger strike along with AAP activists to protest against the inaction of the Punjab government in the payment of post-matric scholarship amount of Dalit students. AAP Punjab president Bhagwant Mann said that the protest by AAP members had forced the Punjab government led by CM Amarinder Singh to release the funds amounting to 200 crore as 40% share of the amount that Punjab government had to pay. [7]
Her term ended with the dissolution of the Fifteenth Punjab assembly on 11 March 2022. The dissolution was necessitated after the results of the election were declared on 10 March. [8] [9]
She was reelected from Jagraon in the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. She defeated the SAD candidate,a former MLA and bureaucrat,by more than 39,000 votes. [11] 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. [12]
She is involved in social service outside politics. She is involved with the Jagraon Economic Club.[ citation needed ]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AAP | Saravjit Kaur Manuke | 61,521 | 45.69 | New | |
INC | Malkit Singh Dakha | 35,945 | 26.69 | ||
SAD | Amarjit Kaur Sahoke | 33,295 | 24.72 | ||
Independent | Avtar Singh Billa | 1,564 | 1.16 | ||
NOTA | None of the above | 996 | 0.74 | ||
BSP | Subedar Sadhu Singh Tappar | 591 | 0.44 | ||
CPI(M) | Baljit Singh | 546 | 0.41 | ||
Independent | Gurmit Singh | 499 | 0.37 | ||
APP | Jasvir Singh | 396 | 0.29 | ||
Independent | Gurminder Kaur | 305 | 0.23 | ||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 135658 | 77.19 | |||
Registered electors | 175,752 | [15] | |||
AAP gain from SAD | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AAP | Saravjit Kaur Manuke | 65,195 | 51.95 | ![]() | |
SAD | Shiv Ram Kaler | 25,539 | 20.35 | ![]() | |
INC | Jagtar Singh Jagga Hissowal [17] | 20,878 | 16.64 | ![]() | |
SAD(A) | Parivar Singh Dalla | 5,179 | 4.13 | ![]() | |
NOTA | None of the above | 1057 | 0.84 | ||
Majority | 39656 | 31.6 | |||
Turnout | 125503 | ||||
Registered electors | 184,819 | [18] | |||
AAP hold |
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