Sheetal Angural

Sheetal Angural is an Indian politician representing the Jalandhar West Assembly constituency in the Punjab Legislative Assembly and now he is a former MLA. He was a member of the Aam Aadmi Party.[1] He joined Bharatiya Janta Party in 27 March 2024, before the 2024 Indian General Election .[2]

Sheetal Angural
Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly
In office
2022–2024
Preceded bySushil Kumar Rinku
ConstituencyJalandhar West
MajorityAam Aadmi Party
Personal details
Born
Sheetal

Jalandhar
NationalityIndian
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
(till 2021; 2024-present)
Other political
affiliations		Aam Aadmi Party
(2021-2024)
Residence(s)Basti Danishmanda, Jalandhar, Punjab
EducationMatric
OccupationBusinessman

Career

2022 Punjab assembly elections

Sheetal Angural won 2022 Punjab assembly elections from Jalandhar West constituency by defeating Sushil Rinku of Indian National Congress by 4253 votes.[3]

Joining BJP

Sheetal Angural joined the Bharatiya Janta Party on 27 March 2024.[4]

Member of Legislative Assembly

He represents the Jalandhar West Assembly constituency as MLA in Punjab Assembly.

Committee assignments of Punjab Legislative Assembly

Electoral performance
2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election: Jalandhar West[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AAP Sheetal Angural[7] 39,213 33.73 19.69
INC Sushil Kumar Rinku 34,960 30.07 19.26
BJP Mohinder Bhagat 33,486 28.81 4.68
BSP Anil Meena 4,125 3.55
SAD(A) Jasbir Singh Mann 1,701 1.46
NOTA None of the above 921 0.79
Majority 4,253 3.7
Turnout 1,16,247 67.70
AAP gain from INC Swing

Resignation Accepted

Punjab Assembly Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan has accepted his resignation on May 30 and a notification was issued on May 31, 2024. Further, now this seat is vacant which will be filled by election on July 10.[8]

References
  1. "Punjab Assembly Election 2022 Full Winners List". Financial Express. 10 March 2022. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
  2. "Double setback for AAP in Punjab: MP Sushil Kumar, MLA Sheetal Angural to join BJP".
  3. "Election Commission of India". results.eci.gov.in. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
  4. "Double setback for AAP in Punjab: MP Sushil Kumar, MLA Sheetal Angural to join BJP".
  5. "vidhan Sabha". punjabassembly.nic.in.
  6. "vidhan Sabha". punjabassembly.nic.in. Archived from the original on 14 May 2021. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  7. "Punjab Elections 2022: Full list of Aam Aadmi Party candidates and their constituencies". The Financial Express. 21 January 2022. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  8. "Punjab Assembly Speaker accepts AAP turncoat Sheetal Angural's resignation".


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