BATHINDA: From the assembly to Parliament and now back in the fray for the assembly elections — this is the political journey of Aam Aadmi Party‘s Sangrur MP Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer.When the party needed to win seats in Parliament in 2024, it fielded the then Punjab sports minister and two-time MLA from the Sangrur Lok Sabha constituency, where he emerged victorious by a big margin.Now, as the AAP seeks to retain power in Punjab, it has allotted Meet Hayer a party ticket from the Barnala assembly constituency.Meet Hayer began his political career in the 2017 assembly elections from Barnala at the age of 27. Contesting his first election, he defeated Kewal Singh Dhillon, who was then in the Congress and is currently the state BJP president.In 2022, he retained the Barnala seat and was elevated to the post of education minister. His portfolio was later shifted to mining and then sports.After Meet Hayer won the Lok Sabha election in 2024, the AAP lost the Barnala assembly seat in the subsequent bypoll, where Harinder Singh was the party’s candidate.The party has once again reposed faith in Meet Hayer, who has so far remained undefeated in both assembly and parliamentary elections.
