AAP releases list of 784 candidates

With just a day left for filing of nominations, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday released its first list of 784 candidates for the upcoming municipal elections in the state.

- HT Correspondent

CHANDIGARH:

AAP state chief Aman Arora and state working president Amansher Singh Sherry Kalsi announced the names a day after chief minister Bhagwant Mann chaired a meeting of cabinet ministers, MLAs, state and district office bearers and screening committee members.

The elections to 977 wards across five municipal corporations – Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Patiala and Phagwara – and 44 municipal councils and nagar panchayats are slated for December 21.

The AAP's first list included 94 wards of Ludhiana, 56 wards of Patiala and 74 wards of Amritsar. Later in the evening, it finalised candidates for 83 out of the total 85 wards in Jalandhar. The party had released its Jalandhar list for 72 seats in the afternoon but had to recall it after rift over ticket allocation in six wards.