Dalvir Singh Khangura

Dalvir Singh Khangura
Dalvir Singh Khangura
Member of the Legislative Assembly
	In office; 2017–2022
Governor	V.P. Singh Badnore
Preceded by	Gobind Singh Longowal
Succeeded by	Bhagwant Mann
Constituency	Dhuri Assembly constituency
Personal details
Born	Punjab, India
Political party	Aam Aadmi Party (since 2024)
Other political; affiliations	Indian National Congress (till 2024)

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, is former MLA from Dhuri, Sangrur District, Punjab. He got elected for the seat in the 2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. He was a politician in Indian National Congress but joined Aam Aadmi Party in May 2024 in the presence of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.^[1]^[2]

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.^[3]

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^[4]
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^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AAP	Bhagwant Mann	82,592	64.29
	INC	Dalvir Singh Goldy^[6]	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	^[7]
	AAP gain from INC		Swing

2022 By-election: Sangrur^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SAD(A)	Simranjit Singh Mann	253,154	35.61	31.24
	AAP	Gurmail Singh	247,332	34.79	2.61
	INC	Dalvir Singh Goldy	79,668	11.21	16.22
	BJP	Kewal Singh Dhillon	66,298	9.33	New
	SAD	Bibi Kamaldeep Kaur Rajoana	44,428	6.25	17.58
	NOTA	None of the Above	2471	0.35
Majority			6,245	0.88
Turnout			7,10,919	45.3%	27.1
Registered electors			15,69,240	^[9]
	SAD(A) gain from AAP		Swing	16.92

Personal life

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

References

^ "Members". www.punjabassembly.nic.in. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
^ "Goldy joins AAP". Retrieved 1 May 2024.
^ "The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Chandigarh Stories". www.tribuneindia.com. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
^ Election Commission of India. "Punjab General Legislative Election 2017". Retrieved 26 June 2021.
^ "Punjab General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. 10 May 2022. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
^ "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.
^ "Punjab General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
^ "5-cornered contest for Sangrur Lok Sabha byelection". Tribuneindia News Service. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
^ "Election Commission of India". results.eci.gov.in. Retrieved 19 July 2022.

[1] "Members". www.punjabassembly.nic.in. Retrieved 31 May 2021.

[2] "Goldy joins AAP". Retrieved 1 May 2024.

[3] "The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Chandigarh Stories". www.tribuneindia.com. Retrieved 5 June 2021.

[election2017-4] Election Commission of India. "Punjab General Legislative Election 2017". Retrieved 26 June 2021.

[election2022-5] "Punjab General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. 10 May 2022. Retrieved 15 May 2022.

[Punjab_INC_2022-6] "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.

[Punjab_Election_2022-7] "Punjab General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.

[8] "5-cornered contest for Sangrur Lok Sabha byelection". Tribuneindia News Service. Retrieved 7 June 2022.

[9] "Election Commission of India". results.eci.gov.in. Retrieved 19 July 2022.

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