AAP announces first list of 40 candidates for Punjab elections
Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann will contest from Dhuri as the party renominated 40 sitting MLAs for the 2027 Assembly polls.
NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) announced its first list of 40 candidates for the 2027 Punjab Assembly elections on Saturday. Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, a first-time MLA, will contest from the Dhuri constituency in Sangrur district.
The announcement was made by Mann in Delhi following a meeting of the party's Political Affairs Committee. AAP is the first major political party to declare candidates for the state Assembly polls due early next year.
The list includes jailed Cabinet minister Sanjeev Arora, who is in jail regarding an alleged GST fraud-linked money laundering case. No other Cabinet minister was mentioned in the list.
Four sitting women MLAs have been fielded, including Baljinder Kaur from Talwandi Sabo, Inderjit Kaur Mann from Nakodar, Santosh Kataria from Balachaur, and Amandeep Kaur Arora from Moga. Three former ministers, Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, Inderbir Singh Nijjar, and Bram Shanker Jimpa, are also included.
Other candidates include Punjab Assembly Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan from Kotkapura and the Deputy Speaker from the Garhshankar segment. AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal extended his best wishes to the candidates on X.
The list also features Punjab AAP Working President Amansher Singh Sherry Kalsi from Batala and several others from various constituencies including Mohali, Ludhiana, and Patiala.