Punjab is set to witness a multi-cornered contest in the Tarn Taran Assembly bypoll, with the ruling AAP hoping to retain the seat and other major players -- Congress, SAD and BJP -- looking to turn a corner.

The AAP has won five of the six bypolls in Punjab since it came to power in March 2022. The Tarn Taran seat was previously held by its late MLA Kashmir Singh Sohal.

The AAP has fielded turncoat Harmeet Singh Sandhu. A three-time MLA from Tarn Taran, he joined the AAP in July.

He was elected to the Assembly from Tarn Taran as an Independent in 2002 and in 2007 and 2012 on a Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) ticket. He unsuccessfully contested elections from the seat in 2017 and 2022.

In the 2022 Punjab Assembly polls, AAP's Sohal won the seat with over 13,000 votes. The seat fell vacant fo

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