Lok Insaaf Party
Lok Insaaf Party | |
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| Abbreviation | LIP |
| President | Simarjit Singh Bains |
| Chairman | Balwinder Singh Bains |
| Founded | 28 October 2016[1] (8 years, 58 days ago) |
| Merged into | Indian National Congress |
| Alliance | |
| 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.
It contested 2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election on five seats in alliance with Aam Aadmi Party.[2]
2017 Punjab assembly election
[edit]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.
2019 general election
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ a b Bains brothers float Lok Insaaf Party
- ^ "Lok Insaaf party leader held, heroin seized". The Indian Express. 2018-03-24. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
- ^ "Bains brothers announced coalition with AAP". The Indian Express. 2019-01-27. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
- ^ "PDA will contest on 9 seats". Business Standard India. 26 February 2019.