Two-time Adampur winner Pawan Kumar Tinu gets AAP ticket for 2027 Punjab polls
Babushahi Bureau
Chandigarh, November 12, 2026: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has fielded senior leader Pawan Kumar Tinu from Adampur for the 2027 Punjab Assembly elections, bringing him back to the constituency where he had won two consecutive Assembly elections on a Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) ticket.
Tinu, a prominent Dalit leader from the Doaba region, won the Adampur Assembly seat in 2012 and 2017 as an Akali Dal candidate. He contested again from the constituency in 2022 but lost to Congress candidate Sukhwinder Singh Kotli.
His political journey has seen him move from the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to the SAD and subsequently to the AAP. He began his electoral career with the BSP in the late 1990s, contesting from Jalandhar South, now known as Jalandhar West. He joined the Akali Dal ahead of the 2012 Assembly elections and remained with the party for nearly 12 years.
Tinu joined the AAP on April 14, 2024, ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, after differences within the Akali Dal over the party’s political direction and candidate selection. The AAP subsequently fielded him from the Jalandhar parliamentary constituency in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. However, he lost to Congress candidate Charanjit Singh Channi.
The party later appointed him as its constituency in-charge for Adampur in June 2025. He also served as chairman of the Punjab State Cooperative Bank and has held senior organisational responsibilities in AAP Punjab.
Tinu’s selection is significant for AAP as it has chosen a candidate with an established electoral history in Adampur, where he had twice secured victories before losing the 2022 contest.
His return to the constituency also sets the stage for an interesting electoral battle as the party seeks to strengthen its position in the Doaba region.