CHANDIGARH: Ahead of the Municipal Corporation (MC) elections scheduled for December, the Chandigarh unit of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday released its first list of nine candidates for the 35 municipal wards.The candidates’ names were finalised at a high-level party meeting chaired by Delhi MLA and Chandigarh AAP in-charge Jarnail Singh. Senior functionaries and office-bearers of the Chandigarh unit also attended the meeting.The nine candidates named in the first list are Didar Singh, Gurpreet Kaur Laadi, Anju Katyal, Onkar Singh Aulakh, Kuldeep Kimar, Radhika Dhingra, Ajit Singh, Satnam Kaur and Arun Prabha Kurcha.Of the nine candidates, only Anju Katyal is a sitting councillor in the current Municipal Corporation, while the remaining eight are new faces. Several of the candidates are spouses or relatives of the party’s sitting municipal councillors.Sources said the nine wards selected for the first list did not have major dissent or multiple contenders, making the selection process relatively straightforward. The AAP therefore decided to announce candidates for these wards in the first phase.With this early announcement, the party aims to give its candidates sufficient time to reach out to residents, interact with people and strengthen their support base ahead of the MC elections.
