New Delhi: After a thumping victory in Punjab Elections, now Aam Aadmi Party has announced that the party will be nominating cricketer Harbhajan Singh and Delhi MLA Raghav Chadha from Punjab.
Harbhajan, who has taken over 700 wickets in an international career spanning over 18 years, recently retired from the sport.
Raghav Chadha, AAP’s Delhi MLA from Rajinder Nagar and party’s co-incharge in Punjab has been hailed by the party convenor Arvind Kejriwal many times for their victory in Punjab.
The party also said that they will be nominating Dr. Sandeep Pathak to Rajya Sabha. Today is the last day for filing the nominations.
Ashok Kumar Mittal, chancellor of Lovely Professional University, will be the fourth AAP nominee for the Rajya Sabha elections from Punjab.
AAP's fifth nomination for Rajya Sabha will be founder of Krishna Pran Breast Cancer Care Charitable Trust, Sanjiv Arora.
All five vacancies are set to go to AAP, which swept the recent state elections winning 92 of the 117 seats in the Assembly. Pathak, an assistant professor at IIT-Delhi, has been strategising for AAP for years and laid the groundwork for its stupendous recent victory.
The five Punjab vacancies are arising due to the term of the following RS MPs ending on April 9. These MPs are Partap Singh Bajwa and SS Dullo (both from Congress), Shwait Malik (BJP), Naresh Gujral (SAD) and SS Dhindsa (SAD-Sanyukt). Punjab has seven RS seats. The term of Balwinder Singh Bhunder (SAD), Ambika Soni (Congress) will end on July 4 and polls to these two seats would be held later this year.
(This is a breaking news story)