Will announce candidates for Ludhiana, Jalandhar on April 16: Punjab CM

Chandigarh: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will announce its Lok Sabha candidates for Ludhiana and Jalandhar on April 16, AAP Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said on Wednesday. AAP has already announced nine Lok Sabha candidates in Punjab.

In its first list, the party declared Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer from Sangrur, Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal from Amritsar, Laljit Singh Bhullar from Khadur Sahib, Gurmeet Singh Khuddian from Bathinda, Gurpreet Singh GP from Fatehgarh Sahib, Karamjeet Anmol from Faridkot and Balbir Singh as its candidates. . Singh, from Patiala.

In its second list, the party declared its chief spokesperson Malvinder Singh Kang as its candidate from Anandpur Sahib and Raj Kumar Chabbewal from the Hoshiarpur Lok Sabha seat. In its third list on April 16, the party will announce two more candidates, taking the total number of candidates to 11 out of 13. Jalandhar is a Scheduled Caste reserved seat comprising nine assembly constituencies.

AAP won from four constituencies during the 2022 Punjab Assembly elections, but exactly a year ago in the Jalandhar by-election, the Aam Aadmi Party registered a landslide victory by a margin of over 58,000 votes. Since then, the party has become stronger on this seat. And for Ludhiana, the party won eight out of nine assembly constituencies in the 2022 assembly elections.