In Punjab, the AAP won 92 of the 117 assembly seats. After the upcoming Rajya Sabha election, the AAP’s upper house strength is expect to rise from three to eight.
New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has nominated ex-cricketer Harbhajan Singh. IIT professor Sandeep Pathak, educationist Ashok Kumar Mittal. And also Delhi MLA Raghav Chadha for the Rajya Sabha, or upper house of parliament, in Punjab, where the party recently won a landslide victory.
On April 9, five Rajya Sabha seats will become vacant. And also names must be submit today for elections on March 31.
Harbhajan Singh, 41, filed his AAP nomination and also was seen wearing a yellow turban inspire by Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, who was seat next to him.
“After making India proud as a bowling legend, Mr. Turbanator will now raise his voice in Parliament for the people of Punjab,” AAP tweeted, along with a video.
Raghav Chadha, ex-cricketer and IIT professor, is on the AAP’s Rajya Sabha list.
Before the elections, Harbhajan Singh met with former Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu. Fueling speculation that he would run for Congress. However, the former cricketer has denied the allegations.
In Punjab, the AAP won 92 of the 117 assembly seats. After the Rajya Sabha election, the AAP’s upper house strength is expect to rise from three to eight.
The Congress, as well as Mr. Sidhu and several other high-profile party candidates, lost the Punjab election.
Sandeep Pathak, a physics professor at India’s premier IIT (Indian Institute of Technology). Is credit with helping the AAP rise and also win in Punjab.
He is said to be close to AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab’s new AAP government’s new Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, who took office last week.
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According to sources, Professor Pathak stayed in Punjab for three years to prepare for the election and built AAP’s booth-level organization.
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Raghav Chadha, a senior AAP leader and MLA in the Delhi assembly, is one of the party’s top leaders.
