The Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP) on Sunday launched its listing of candidates for the upcoming byelections to 4 Meeting constituencies in Punjab. The AAP is the primary political celebration to declare candidates for the November 13 bypolls.
The candidates are Harinder Singh Dhaliwal from Barnala, Hardeep Singh Dimpy Dhillon from Gidderbaha, Ishaan Chabbewal from Chabbewal and Gurdeep Singh Randhawa from Dera Baba Nanak. Chabbewal is the son of AAP MP Raj Kumar Chabbewal, whereas Dhaliwal is an in depth buddy of Sangrur MP Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer. Dhillon is a turncoat who joined AAP after leaving Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in August this 12 months whereas Randhawa is the AAP’s constituency incharge from Dera Baba Nanak.
Let’s know extra about Dhaliwal and Dhillon.
Harinder Singh Dhaliwal
Age: 35
Constituency: Barnala
He’s an in depth buddy of Sangrur MP Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer. Dhaliwal holds a BTech diploma and comes from a farming household in Chhiniwal village, Barnala. It has been reported that Dhaliwal and Meet Hayer attended Baba Gandha Singh Public College in Barnala collectively till Class 12, after which they each enrolled at Swami Vivekanand Institute of Engineering and Know-how in Banur to finish their BTech diploma. Each joined the AAP collectively round a decade in the past.
Sources point out that Dhaliwal has continuously been seen alongside Meet Hayer. You will need to be aware that Meet Hayer is a two-time AAP MLA, having received from the Barnala constituency in 2017 and 2022. He additionally received the Sangrur Lok Sabha seat in June 2024, which necessitated a bypoll. Earlier than his election to the Lok Sabha, Meet Hayer served because the Punjab Sports activities Minister. Dhaliwal has been actively campaigning for Meet Hayer’s Lok Sabha elections, and they’re typically seen collectively within the constituency. This can be Dhaliwal’s first election.
Dalvir Singh Khangura, also called Goldy, is a former Congress MLA from the Dhuri constituency who joined the Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP) in Might this 12 months throughout the Lok Sabha marketing campaign. Sources point out that Goldy was vying for the Barnala ticket, however an in depth aide of Meet Hayer was chosen as a substitute. Beforehand, Goldy served because the Sangrur district president for Congress. He left the celebration after being denied the Lok Sabha ticket for the Sangrur seat.
Hardeep Singh Dimpy Dhillon
Age: 56
Constituency: Gidderbaha
Dimpy Dhillon joined the AAP on August 28 from the SAD. He comes from the Gidderbaha constituency within the Muktsar district, the place he has been introduced because the celebration’s candidate. After serving the SAD for greater than 4 many years, Dhillon, a long-time Akali, made the swap to AAP.
Earlier, he unsuccessfully contested the Gidderbaha polls on an SAD ticket in 2017 and 2022. He’s an agriculturist and the proprietor of Deep Transports, which operates personal buses on varied routes inside Punjab and interstate. He graduated from Panjab College, Chandigarh. In 2022, he misplaced to the Congress’s Amarinder Singh Raja Warring by a slender margin of 1,349 votes.
Dhillon has been introduced as a candidate about seven weeks after becoming a member of the AAP. He was already lively within the space, as Chief Minister Mann had indicated that he could be declared the candidate on the day of his becoming a member of.
The native AAP employees have been disgruntled when he joined the celebration, and plenty of didn’t attend the operate the place CM Bhagwant Mann welcomed Dhillon into the celebration. In consequence, AAP struggled to seek out their very own candidate and needed to rely upon a defector.
This seat grew to become vacant after the sitting Congress MLA, Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, received from Ludhiana within the Lok Sabha elections. Warring additionally serves because the president of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC). In Gidderbaha, Warring’s spouse Amrita Warring and the BJP’s Manpreet Singh Badal are the important thing contenders for the Congress and the BJP, respectively.
