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AAP Declares Eight Lok Sabha Candidates In Punjab: Five Are Ministers In Bhagwant Mann Cabinet, One Is Former Congress MLA
Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann (left) and Arvind Kejriwal (right)
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday (14 March) declared eight candidates in Punjab for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Of these five are Ministers in the Bhagwant Mann Cabinet while one is Jalandhar's sitting MP Sushil Kumar Rinku, also the lone AAP MP in Lok Sabha.
Punjab Cabinet Ministers who got tickets are Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal from Amritsar, Laljit Singh Bhullar from Khadoor Sahib, Gurmeet Singh Khudian from Bathinda, Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer from Sangrur and Dr Blbir Singh from Patiala.
The other two candidates are Gurpreet Singh GP from Fatehgarh Sahib and Karamjeet Anmol from Faridkot. Former Congress MLA Gurpreet Singh GP joined AAP just a few days ago.
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