Chandigarh/New Delhi: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Saturday said Aam Aadmi Party candidate Sushil Kumar Rinku's win was people's stamp on his government's works during the last 14 months.

Mann, along with AAP's national convener and New Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, addressing media said the party does not believe in the religion, castes-base politics and its issues were always education, health and infrastructure.

He congratulated party volunteers and said with the win, he felt his responsibility has increased.

Commenting on the opposition's politics, Mr Mann said he would like to congratulate them also who came up with objectionable allegations and personal attacks. He said there was a time when one would get votes by alleging anything. Now, people are more concerned with issues like health and education.

Apparently, he was hinting at the allegations of sexual misconduct on one of his ministers by the opposition including the Congress.

Replying to a query regarding the party's defeat in Sangrur LS by-elections last year, he said the party took that in the right spirit and tried to analyse its mistakes and correct the same.

He said the party would try to win all the 13 Lok Sabha seats in the 2024 general elections.

Kejriwal termed the victory 'historic' and said the Jalandhar LS seat was considered a Congress stronghold as in the last 60 years, the party has been ruling it for 50 years. He said that the party only believes in doing politics of development.

AAP leader congratulated the people of Jalandhar and said in assembly elections held last year, even though the party had won 92 seats in the state, the party could register a win at only four assembly seats of Jalandhar parliamentary seat. Five went to the Congress, so this was an unprecedented win.

He said they have defeated dynastic politics of Congress and BJP. While Congress had fielded Karamjeet Kaur Chaudhary, wife of late MP Santokh Singh Chaudhary, BJP had fielded Inder Iqbal Singh, son of Charanjit Singh Atwal. Both left the SAD to join BJP only last month.

Kejriwal said in 2014, the AAP had won 4 LS seats. In 2019 it was reduced to a single seat of Sangrur. In by-elections last year, the party lost that seat too so with Jalandhar win, the party made a comeback in the Lok Sabha and hoped to increase the Lok Sabha presence in 2024.

(With UNI inputs)