In the assembly election of February 2022 the Aam Aadmi Party won 92 of 117 seats. The Congress, the Akali Dal and the Bharatiya Janata Party were reduced together to about twenty.
It gave the Aam Aadmi Party 92 of the 117 seats and ended a two-party system that had held since 1966.
The party campaigned on health, education, corruption and free electricity for households, and its principal early measures were free domestic power up to a threshold, neighbourhood clinics and school upgrades.
The structural questions are unchanged: the water table, the debt, the cropping pattern, Chandigarh, the river waters and the accounting for 1984 and 2015.
None of those is within a state government's power to resolve alone, which is the constant of Punjab's politics since 1966 and is the reason each government is judged by the same list and fails on it.
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The Aam Aadmi Party took 92 of 117 seats, nearly four fifths of the house, having already won four Lok Sabha seats from Punjab in 2014 and twenty assembly seats in 2017.
The result ended the alternation between the Akali Dal and the Congress that had run since the 1960s, and it came after the farm law protests and after the Akali Dal broke its long alliance.
The vote read as a rejection more than as a mandate for anything specific, which is where almost every analysis landed and which the years since have not clearly settled.