CHANDIGARH: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday released its list of candidates for the November 13 bypolls to four assembly seats in Punjab.The list was shared by the party on X (formerly Twitter).AAP has fielded Hardeep Singh Dimpy Dhillon, who joined the party after quitting the Shiromani Akali Dal in August, from the Gidderbaha constituency.Ishaan Chabbewal, son of AAP Hoshiarpur MP Raj Kumar Chabbewal, has been named as the candidate for the Chabbewal (SC) segment. Harinder Singh Dhaliwal will represent the party from Barnala, while Gurdeep Singh Randhawa will contest from the Dera Baba Nanak seat.The bypolls were necessitated after MLAs representing the four constituencies were elected to the Lok Sabha. Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, the Congress MLA from Gidderbaha, won the Ludhiana Lok Sabha seat. Raj Kumar Chabbewal, a former Congress MLA who later joined the AAP, was elected to the Lok Sabha from Hoshiarpur. Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, the Congress MLA from Dera Baba Nanak, won the Gurdaspur parliamentary seat, and Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer, the AAP MLA from Barnala, was elected from Sangrur.The counting of votes for the bypolls will take place on November 23.
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