The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has unveiled its second set of 31 candidates for the upcoming Punjab Assembly polls, bringing the total to 71.
The second list has been released by the national secretary of AAP, Pankaj Kumar Gupta and they are quite a few great candidates from the state. Rohit Syal will be playing from Pathankot and Raman Bahl will be playing from Gurdaspur.
Menghat Loker Ji, Karamjit Singh Rintu, has been selected as the party’s Amritsar North candidate, while Nitin Kohli is the party’s Jalandhar Central candidate. Vaneet Dhir is making his first appearance in the middle-order and Deepak Bali is coming from the fast-bowlers department at Jalandhar North and Jalandhar Cantonment.
Other candidates in the list are Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer, Barnala and Gopal Singh from Bathinda Rural. Advocate Harsimran Singh is contesting from Bholath Constituency, Kapurthala’s Pawan Kumar Tinu and Davinder Pal Singh in the party will contest from Phagwara and Balvir Singh Pala Jalalpur in the party will contest from Shahkot.
Last month, AAP has already published its first list of 40 candidates. The party has 117 seats in the Punjab Assembly and it has 95 at present.
The latest incarnation comes after a party’s Political Affairs Committee meeting in which party leaders met with feedback gathered from party internal surveys to discuss ticket allocation.
The committee had held extensive discussions about the survey results before narrowing down to candidates that would be chosen for the next elections, AAP said.