The Aam Aadmi Party on Monday announced two more candidates, from Mohali and lehra, for the upcoming Punjab Assembly elections. So far, the AAP has declared its nominees for 107 seats out of a total of 117 Assembly segments.
Announcing the names, AAP’s Punjab convener Gurpreet Singh Waraich (Ghuggi) said the 48-year-old Narinder Singh Shergill will be party’s candidate from Mohali constituency and 41-year-old Jasbir Singh Kudani from lehragaga assembly seat. “Shergill is a progressive farmer and former Sarpanch of Jhingran Kalan village of Kharar. He joined AAP in 2014 before lok Sabha elections,” he said, adding that Kudani, also a farmer by profession, had joined AAP in April 2016.
Earlier, party had announced name of its legal Cell head and advocate Himmat Singh Shergill as its candidate from Mohali, but later shifted him to contest against the state Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia from Majitha assembly segment.
Meanwhile, the Bains brothers-led lok Insaf Party, which has entered into an alliance with AAP, has so far announced four candidates out of the five assembly seats it is contesting.
The party fielded Simarjit Bains from Atam Nagar, while his brother, Balwinder Bains, has been nominated from ludhiana South assembly constituency. Both of them had won in 2012 assembly polls from these seats.