The 90-member assembly’s second list of candidates was released by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday, along with declarations of candidacies for nine additional seats.
Amid stalled pre-election alliance negotiations with its rival-turned-partner, the Congress, the Arvind Kejriwal-led party announced candidates for 20 constituencies the day before the release of the new list.
“The Party hereby announces the following candidates for the state elections for Haryana Assembly,” the AAP said in a post on X.
The AAP has announced tickets for the following people on the second list: Advocate Bhupendra Beniwal (Adampur), Professor Chhatar Pal Singh (Barwala), Jawahar Lal (Bawal), Abash Chandela (Tigaon), Advocate Rita Bamaniya from Sadhaura, Krishan Bajaj (Thanesar), Hawa Singh (Indri), and Mukhtiyar Singh Bazigar (Ratia).
In the Lok Sabha elections, held earlier this year, Congress and AAP contested several states, including Delhi and Haryana, as members of the more significant, Congress-led opposition INDIA bloc.
The grand old party ran candidates in nine of the ten Lok Sabha seats in Haryana, the home state of AAP leader and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal. It left Kurukshetra for the AAP; while five Congress candidates won, the only AAP contestant was defeated.
The BJP won the state’s ten parliamentary seats in the 2019 general elections. Meanwhile, on October 5th, Haryana’s assembly elections will take place. The BJP has ruled the state since 2014. On October 8, the counting will take place.
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