For months ahead of the polls, the Congress party faced anti-incumbency and internal strife, with PCC chief Navjot Singh Sidhu and then-chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh not being on the same page. What began between Sidhu and Captain continued between Sidhu and Charanjit Singh Channi as well.
The BJP is ahead of the Samajwadi Party-led alliance in Uttar Pradesh and the AAP and Congress are neck-and-neck in Punjab in very early trends based on postal ballots as votes are being counted in five states.