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Parliamentary elections in Punjab are always considered a referendum on the performance of the political party in power, since these elections happen midway through the term of the state government. An Assembly segment-wise analysis of results of the Lok Sabha elections in the 13 parliamentary constituencies here reveals that the Congress still has a lead in 69 Assembly segments, way up the majority mark of 58 seats in the Assembly.
Though the party is short of lead on just eight Assembly seats as compared to 77 seats it won in 2017, Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh is already taking note of it while admitting yesterday that the party did not perform well in urban pockets. He is not just recommending a change in the portfolio of the Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu to ensure speedier compliance of development works, but is learnt to have told his officers to come up with new innovative ideas to woo the urban voters and not cede any political space to his rivals.
While the news is good for the Capt Amarinder Singh government, it is not too heartening for either the SAD or AAP. If these results are to be analysed Assembly segment wise, the SAD has a lead in just 24 segments (as compared to 15 seats it won in 2017 Assembly polls). The party has won just two (Bathinda and Ferozepur) of the 10 parliamentary seats it contested and 14 of the Assembly segments it has managed a lead in are in these two constituencies.
In the Majha belt, the SAD has managed a lead in just on
