Dalvir Singh Khangura

Dalvir Singh Khangura is former MLA from Dhuri, Sangrur District, Punjab. He got elected for the seat in the 2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. He is a politician in Indian National Congress.[1] Dalvir Singh Khangura, known as "Goldy", was born on 24 September 1982 in a Jat Sikh family in Dhuri, District Sangrur, Punjab India. He has done his schooling from S.V.M., Dhuri. He later joined S.D. College, Chandigarh and did his Graduation and PGDCA.

Career

He contested as College Representative in S.D. College in 2002 and won. He was chosen as President of Student Union Of Panjab University (SOPU) to represent them in college elections as college president in 2003–2004.

Dalvir then joined Punjab University, Chandigarh. He became the President of Punjab University Campus Student Counsel in the year 2006–2007.[2]

Dalvir Singh than joined Youth congress in 2007, working at various levels for Congress party since then. He is also Chairman, Panchayati Raj Sangathan (District Sangrur).

Member of the Legislative Assembly

He was then fielded as the candidate for 2017 legislative assembly elections from Dhuri, Punjab. Dalvir won the seat of MLA from Dhuri and polled 49,349 votes and won with the margin of 2838 votes from INC party.Dalvir lost in 2022 assembly election to Bhagwant Singh Mann with a whopping margin of 58206 votes.After that he lost Sangrur Lok Sabha by poll and even lost his deposit.

Electoral Performance
2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election : Dhuri[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Dalvir Singh Goldy 49,347 38.62
AAP Jasvir Singh Jassi Sekhon 46,536 36.42
SAD Hari Singh 28,611 22.39
SAD(M) Surjit Singh Kalabula 1,405 1.10
BSP Bhola Singh 1,390 1.09
NOTA None of the Above 662 0.52
Independent Tarsem Kumar 474 0.37
Margin of victory 2,811 2.19
Total valid votes 1,28,425 81.04
Rejected ballots 315
Turnout 1,28,740 81.23
Registered electors 1,58,479
INC gain from SAD Swing
2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election : Dhuri[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AAP Bhagwant Mann 82,592 64.29
INC Dalvir Singh Goldy[5] 24,386 18.98
SAD Parkash Chand Garg 6,991 5.44
BJP Randeep Singh Deol 5,436 4.23
SAD(A) Narinder Singh 4,469 3.48
SSM Sarbjit Singh Alal 1,188 0.92
NOTA None of the Above 775 0.6
National Apni Party Sukhwinder Singh 726 0.57
Apni Ekta Party Pardeep Kumar 554 0.43
Independent Shakti Kumar Gupta 488 0.38
LIP Jaswinder Singh 457 0.36
Independent Vijay Syal 230 0.18
CPI(ML)L Harpreet Singh 166 0.13
Margin of victory 58,206 45.4
Total valid votes 1,28,458 77.32
Rejected ballots 429
Turnout 1,28,977 77.63
Registered electors 1,66,143 [6]
AAP gain from INC Swing
2022 By-election: Sangrur[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SAD(A) Simranjit Singh Mann 253,154 35.61 Increase31.24
AAP Gurmail Singh 247,332 34.79 Decrease2.61
INC Dalvir Singh Goldy 79,668 11.21 Decrease16.22
BJP Kewal Singh Dhillon 66,298 9.33 New
SAD Bibi Kamaldeep Kaur Rajoana 44,428 6.25 Decrease17.58
NOTA None of the Above 2471 0.35
Majority 6,245 0.88
Turnout 7,10,919 45.3% Decrease27.1
Registered electors 15,69,240 [8]
SAD(A) gain from AAP Swing Increase16.92

Personal life

Dalvir Singh is married to Simrat Khangura and has two sons.

References
  1. "Members". www.punjabassembly.nic.in. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  2. "The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Chandigarh Stories". www.tribuneindia.com. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  3. Election Commission of India. "Punjab General Legislative Election 2017". Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  4. "Election Commission of India". results.eci.gov.in. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
  5. "Punjab Elections 2022: Full list of Congress Candidates and their Constituencies". FE Online. No. The Financial Express (India). The Indian Express Group. 18 February 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  6. "Punjab General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  7. "5-cornered contest for Sangrur Lok Sabha byelection". Tribuneindia News Service. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
  8. "Election Commission of India". results.eci.gov.in. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
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