AAP Picks For Rajya Sabha: Ex Cricketer Harbhajan Singh, IIT Professor

New Delhi:

Ex cricketer Harbhajan Singh, IIT professor Sandeep Pathak, educationist Ashok Kumar Mittal and Delhi MLA Raghav Chadha are the Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP)’s nominees for Rajya Sabha or the higher home of parliament from Punjab, the place the get together received a huge victory in latest elections.

5 Rajya Sabha seats will fall vacant on April 9 and names need to be submitted immediately for elections on March 31.

AAP received 92 of Punjab’s 117 meeting seats. After the upcoming Rajya Sabha election, AAP’s energy within the higher home is ready to extend from three to eight.

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

Sandeep Pathak, a professor of Physics on the premier IIT (Indian Institute of Know-how), is seen to be instrumental in AAP’s rise and victory in Punjab. He’s believed to be near AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann, who took over as Chief Minister of Punjab’s new AAP authorities final week.

Sources say Professor Pathak stayed in Punjab for 3 years for ballot preps and constructed AAP’s organisation on the booth-level.

Raghav Chadha, AAP’s is an MLA within the Delhi meeting. He’s Co-Incharge of AAP in Punjab and had very Lively Function throughout Elections

Ashok Kumar Mittal is the founding father of Pretty Skilled College, and is described by the get together as a famend academician and social activist.