Punjab assembly election result 2022: Bollywood star Sonu Sood's sister Malvika loses from Moga

As per the ECI data, Malvika Sood was defeated by AAP’s Dr Amandeep Kaur Arora by over 20,000 votes from the Moga seat.

NEW DELHI: Bollywood actor Sonu Sood's sister and Congress candidate Malvika Sood lost from the Moga seat after several rounds of counting of votes for recently concluded assembly elections 2022. 

As per the ECI data, Malvika Sood was defeated by AAP’s Dr Amandeep Kaur Arora by over 20,000 votes from the Moga seat.

The winning AAP candidate secured a massive 58,813 votes, whereas Congress's Malvika Sood, who came second, got 38125 votes. Moga went to the polls on February 20. For over 40 years, the Moga seat has been a traditional Congress bastion. In the elections from 1977 to 2017, the Congress party has won six times from here. In 2017, Harjot Singh won the election. 

Being a Congress stronghold for decades and after the entry of Malvika Sood, the Moga seat became a celebrity seat. However, this time, Aam Aadmi Party candidate Dr Amandeep Kaur Arora won from the Moga Assembly seat.

Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi had welcomed Malvika Sood in the party in the month of January. Asserting his confidence in the actor's sister, CM Channi had said that he is confident that Malvika will serve the people of Punjab with full honesty and integrity.