CHANDIGARH: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday released its first list of nine candidates for the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation elections, scheduled to be held in December 2026.
The list includes Gurpreet Kaur Laddi, wife of sitting councillor Jasbir Singh Laddi, who will contest from Ward 21, and Radhika Dhingra, wife of councillor Yogesh Dhingra, who has been fielded from Ward 25. Both wards have been reserved for women.
Satnam Kaur has been nominated from Ward 30. She is the wife of former councillor Malkiyat Singh and sister-in-law of AAP councillor Hardeep Singh.
The party has also renominated former Chandigarh Mayor Kuldeep Kumar from Ward 24, as his current Ward 26 has been reserved for women. Sitting councillor Anju Katyal has been retained from Ward 22.
The other candidates are Dildar Singh from Ward 1, Omkar Singh Aulakh from Ward 23, Ajit Singh Jind from Ward 27 and advocate Arun Prabha Khurcha from Ward 32.
The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation has 35 wards. With its first list, AAP has announced candidates for nine wards. The party is expected to name candidates for the remaining wards in subsequent lists.
(With inputs from media reports)