AAP's 1st Punjab list out, CM Mann to fight from Dhuri, jailed MLA also gets ticket

India Today · Aseem Bassi · 2026-10-31 06:44 UTC

In the first list the Aam Aadmi Party has retained its 37 incumbent MLAs Jailed minister Sanjeev Arora has been fielded from the Jalandhar West assembly seat

In the first list, the Aam Aadmi Party has retained its 37 incumbent MLAs. Jailed minister Sanjeev Arora has been fielded from the Jalandhar West assembly seat.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has released its first list of candidates for the upcoming Punjab Assembly elections, naming Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann from Dhuri and jailed minister Sanjeev Arora from Ludhiana West. The party has also retained 40 sitting MLAs in its first list.

Dhuri is considered an AAP stronghold. In the 2022 Assembly elections, Mann secured a resounding victory from the constituency, defeating Congress's Dalvir Singh Goldy by a margin of 58,000 votes. The party also performed strongly in the latest civic body polls, winning 20 of the 21 wards in the Dhuri municipal council.

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