AAP Releases Second List For Punjab Assembly Elections, Names Of 31 Candidates Announced

New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party has intensified its preparations for the 2027 Punjab Assembly elections. The party has released its second list of candidates, announcing 31 names. The party's Political Affairs Committee (PAC) meeting in Delhi approved these candidates. Previously, the AAP had announced 40 candidates in its first list. The Aam Aadmi Party has so far announced 71 candidates for Punjab's 117 assembly seats. 

Two sitting MPs have been given assembly tickets: Meet Hayer from Barnala and Rajkumar Chabewal from Phagwara. Eight sitting MLAs have been denied tickets. Candidates have been announced for 21 lost seats. Punjab Agriculture Minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian's ticket from the Lambi assembly constituency was cut. The ticket was given to Gurmeet Singh Khudian's nephew, Randhir Singh Dheera.

Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer, MP from Sangrur, Punjab, was fielded from Barnala. He had previously served as an MLA from the same constituency, but later, his party fielded him in the Sangrur Lok Sabha by-election, and he became an MP. Rajkumar Chabbewal is the Aam Aadmi Party MP from Hoshiarpur.

Actress Sonia Mann is the candidate from Rajasansi

Actress Sonia Mann has been fielded from the Rajasansi seat in Amritsar, where the Congress strongman and former minister Sukh Sarkaria has been a regular winner.

ਆਮ ਆਦਮੀ ਪਾਰਟੀ 2027 ਦੀਆਂ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਵਿਧਾਨ ਸਭਾ ਚੋਣਾਂ ਲਈ ਉਮੀਦਵਾਰਾਂ ਦੀ ਦੂਜੀ ਸੂਚੀ ਦਾ ਐਲਾਨ ਕਰਦੀ ਹੈ। ਸਾਰੇ ਉਮੀਦਵਾਰਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਬਹੁਤ-ਬਹੁਤ ਸ਼ੁਭਕਾਮਨਾਵਾਂ https://t.co/dwXMcW6DCe

— AAP Punjab (@AAPPunjab) November 12, 2026

Dr. Charanjit Singh, who defeated former Chief Minister and Congress leader Charanjit Singh Channi in the last election from the Chamkaur Sahib assembly seat in Ropar, Punjab, has been denied a ticket. In his place, Aam Aadmi Party Assembly in-charge and Dalit leader Jasbir Singh Garhi has been fielded.

Amit Ratna Kotfatta, the sitting MLA from Bathinda Rural in Punjab, has also been denied a ticket. Gopal Singh has been declared his replacement. Amit Ratna is the brother-in-law of Y. Puran Kumar, a senior Haryana IPS officer who committed suicide in Chandigarh.