# Dalvir Singh Khangura

Dalvir Singh Khangura, known as "Goldy", was born on 24 September 1982 in a Jat Sikh family in Dhuri, District Sangrur, Punjab India. He has done his schooling from S.V.M., Dhuri. He later joined S.D. College, Chandigarh and did his Graduation and PGDCA, is former MLA from Dhuri, Sangrur District, Punjab. He got elected for the seat in the 2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. He was a politician in Indian National Congress but joined Aam Aadmi Party in May 2024 in the presence of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.

## Career

He contested as College Representative in S.D. College in 2002 and won. He was chosen as President of Student Union Of Panjab University (SOPU) to represent them in college elections as college president in 2003–2004.
Dalvir then joined Punjab University, Chandigarh. He became the President of Punjab University Campus Student Counsel in the year 2006–2007.
Dalvir Singh than joined Youth congress in 2007, working at various levels for Congress party since then. He is also Chairman, Panchayati Raj Sangathan (District Sangrur).

### Member of the Legislative Assembly

He was then fielded as the candidate for 2017 legislative assembly elections from Dhuri, Punjab. Dalvir won the seat of MLA from Dhuri and polled 49,349 votes and won with the margin of 2838 votes from INC party. Dalvir lost in 2022 assembly election to Bhagwant Singh Mann with a whopping margin of 58206 votes. After that he lost Sangrur Lok Sabha by poll and even lost his deposit.

## Electoral Performance

2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election : Dhuri :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | INC | Dalvir Singh Goldy | 49,347 | 38.62 |
| | AAP | Jasvir Singh Jassi Sekhon | 46,536 | 36.42 |
| | SAD | Hari Singh | 28,611 | 22.39 |
| | SAD(M) | Surjit Singh Kalabula | 1,405 | 1.10 |
| | BSP | Bhola Singh | 1,390 | 1.09 |
| | NOTA | None of the Above | 662 | 0.52 |
| | Independent | Tarsem Kumar | 474 | 0.37 |
| Margin of victory | Margin of victory | Margin of victory | 2,811 | 2.19 |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 1,28,425 | 81.04 |
| Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | 315 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,28,740 | 81.23 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 1,58,479 | |
| | INC gain from SAD | INC gain from SAD | Swing | |
2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election : Dhuri :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | AAP | Bhagwant Mann | 82,592 | 64.29 |
| | INC | Dalvir Singh Goldy | 24,386 | 18.98 |
| | SAD | Parkash Chand Garg | 6,991 | 5.44 |
| | BJP | Randeep Singh Deol | 5,436 | 4.23 |
| | SAD(A) | Narinder Singh | 4,469 | 3.48 |
| | SSM | Sarbjit Singh Alal | 1,188 | 0.92 |
| | NOTA | None of the Above | 775 | 0.6 |
| | National Apni Party | Sukhwinder Singh | 726 | 0.57 |
| | Apni Ekta Party | Pardeep Kumar | 554 | 0.43 |
| | Independent | Shakti Kumar Gupta | 488 | 0.38 |
| | LIP | Jaswinder Singh | 457 | 0.36 |
| | Independent | Vijay Syal | 230 | 0.18 |
| | CPI(ML)L | Harpreet Singh | 166 | 0.13 |
| Margin of victory | Margin of victory | Margin of victory | 58,206 | 45.4 |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 1,28,458 | 77.32 |
| Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | 429 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,28,977 | 77.63 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 1,66,143 | |
| | AAP gain from INC | AAP gain from INC | Swing | |
2022 By-election: Sangrur :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | SAD(A) | Simranjit Singh Mann | 253,154 | 35.61 | 31.24 |
| | AAP | Gurmail Singh | 247,332 | 34.79 | 2.61 |
| | INC | Dalvir Singh Goldy | 79,668 | 11.21 | 16.22 |
| | BJP | Kewal Singh Dhillon | 66,298 | 9.33 | New |
| | SAD | Bibi Kamaldeep Kaur Rajoana | 44,428 | 6.25 | 17.58 |
| | NOTA | None of the Above | 2471 | 0.35 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 6,245 | 0.88 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 7,10,919 | 45.3% | 27.1 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 15,69,240 | | |
| | SAD(A) gain from AAP | SAD(A) gain from AAP | Swing | 16.92 | |

## Personal life

Dalvir Singh is married to Simrat Khangura and has two sons.