AAP Nominates Ex Cricketer Harbhajan Singh, Raghav Chadha, Ashok Kumar Mittal, Sandeep Pathak For Rajya Sabha From Punjab

admin

imageHarbhajan Singh has taken over 700 wickets in an international career spanning over 18 years

New Delhi: Ex cricketer Harbhajan Singh, IIT professor Sandeep Pathak, educationist Ashok Kumar Mittal and Delhi MLA Raghav Chadha are the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)’s nominees for Rajya Sabha or the upper house of parliament from Punjab, where the party won a gigantic victory in recent elections.

Five Rajya Sabha seats will fall vacant on April 9 and names have to be submitted today for elections on March 31.

AAP won 92 of Punjab’s 117 assembly seats.After the upcoming Rajya Sabha election, AAP’s strength in the upper house is set to increase from three to eight.

Harbhajan Singh, 41, had met with former Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu before the elections, fuelling speculation of his debut in politics as a Congress member.But the former cricketer had denied it.

Sandeep Pathak, a professor of Physics at the premier IIT (Indian Institute of Technology), is seen to be instrumental in AAP’s rise and victory in Punjab.He is believed to be close to AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann, who took over as Chief Minister of Punjab’s new AAP government last week.

Sources say Professor Pathak stayed in Punjab for three years for poll preps and built AAP’s organisation at the booth-level..

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Next Post

Canberra drivers will soon be able to check traffic conditions in real time with new technology

A new traffic management system will soon be installed to help Canberrans navigate traffic disruptions across the city centre.The ACT government says a combination of bluetooth sensors and new intersection cameras will be installed in “strategic locations” across the centre of Canberra, where disruption and congestion are most likely.The data […]
Canberra drivers will soon be able to check traffic conditions in real time with new technology

Subscribe US Now