New Delhi [India], December 26 (ANI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will start campaigning for the Punjab assembly election from January 3, according to sources.

He will address a rally in Moga on January 3.

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Punjab assembly polls will be held in 2022. In the 2017 Punjab Assembly polls, Congress won an absolute majority in the state by winning 77 seats and ousted the SAD-BJP government after 10 years. Aam Aadmi Party emerged as the second-largest party winning 20 seats in 117-member Punjab Legislative Assembly. The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) could only manage to win 15 seats while the BJP secured 3 seats. (ANI)

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