Chandigarh: Along with Goa, Manipur, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, the battle of assembly elections has been played in Punjab. Meanwhile, the Aam Aadmi Party has released the 10th list of 3 candidates for this election on Sunday. In this way, AAP has declared the names of a total of 112 candidates out of 117 in Punjab.
In this list, the Aam Aadmi Party has relied on Joginder Singh Mann from Phagwara, Gurpreet Singh Gogi from Ludhiana West and Ajitpal Singh Kohli from Patiala city.
Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal is going on a tour of Punjab for two days. During this, he can announce the chief ministerial candidate of the party. Arvind Kejriwal can announce the face of the Chief Minister on January 18. On January 19, CM Kejriwal will do a door to door campaign for the candidate of Aam Aadmi Party.
Earlier, Arvind Kejriwal issued a phone number to decide the CM candidate of Aam Aadmi Party. According to the feedback received on this phone number, the Aam Aadmi Party will present its CM face. The Delhi Chief Minister released a mobile number in the presence of Bhagwant Mann and senior party leader Raghav Chadha. On which people can express their opinion about this by recording a message in their voice, by sending an SMS or through WhatsApp till 5 pm on January 17.
Aam Aadmi Party is putting full emphasis on Punjab Assembly elections. The party has also announced the names of many of its candidates. Let us inform that elections are to be held in Punjab on February 14. Its results are to come on March 10. Here Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party is giving competition to the ruling Congress, apart from the BJP and the Akali Dal.
Punjab is likely to witness a pentagonal contest this election, a marked change from the traditional feud between the Congress and the Shiromani Akali Dal. The Election Commission said assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Manipur and Goa will be held in seven phases from February 10 to March 7 and counting of votes will take place on March 10.
There are total 117 assembly seats in Punjab.
SAD and AAP have declared their candidates for the elections. The SAD has named candidates for over 90 assembly seats while the AAP has declared the names of 104 candidates.
The Congress is yet to announce a candidate, though discussions are underway within the party’s screening committee. In the 2017 Punjab Assembly elections, the Congress ended the ten-year rule of the SAD-BJP alliance by winning 77 seats out of a total of 117 assembly constituencies in the state.
At that time AAP got 20 seats, while SAD-BJP won 18 seats and Lok Insaaf Party (LIP) got two seats.
Congress has 80 seats, AAP 17, SAD 14, BJP 2, LIP 2, while Bholath and Jaito seats are vacant after the by-elections in some seats.
first published:Jan. 16, 2022, 8:30 p.m.
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