AAP picks Harbhajan Singh, Raghav Chadha for RS polls
The Hindu
Party names five candidates from Punjab and is expected to win all seats
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday announced Delhi MLA Raghav Chadha, former Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh, former IIT-Delhi Associate Professor Sandeep Pathak, Lovely Professional University founder and Chancellor Ashok Mittal, and Ludhiana-based businessman Sanjeev Arora as its nominees for polls to Rajya Sabha seats from Punjab.
All five of them filed their nominations later in the day and also met Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.
Polls to 13 Rajya Sabha seats in six States, including five from Punjab, are scheduled to be held on March 31. All the seven Rajya Sabha seats of Punjab are getting vacant this year; polls to the remaining two seats are scheduled for July.
AAP had swept the Assembly election in Punjab by winning 92 out of 117 seats and all the seven Rajya Sabha seats are expected to go to them.
Currently, three seats each are with the Congress and the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and one is with the BJP.
“I am grateful and humbled by the faith and trust reposed in me by my leader, my mentor @ArvindKejriwal ji and my elder brother @BhagwantMann ji. I pray that God blesses me with the strength and ability to meet my party’s expectations with utmost integrity and sincerity,” Mr. Chadha said in a tweet after filing his nomination.
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