MLA Profile:
Sardar Bakhshish Singh Virk is Bhartiya Janata Party’s MLA from Assandh (Haryana) constituency. He defeated the BSP‘s Maratha Virender Verma with 4000+ votes in assembly elections 2014.
In August 2017, Virk was charged with attacking media personnel.
Constituency
Assandh is a city and a municipal committee in Karnal district in the state of Haryana, India. Assandh is 45 km south-west of Karnal. As of 2001 India census.
Assandh had a population of 41,415. Males constitute 54% of the population and females 46%. Assandh has an average literacy rate of 62%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; with 58% of the males and 42% of females literate. 15% of the population is under 6 years of age.