Insight Bureau: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has decided to nominate party’s National Spokesperson Raghav Chadha and IIT-Delhi Associate Professor Sandeep Pathak to the Rajya Sabha. Earlier it had nominated Cricketer Harbhajan Singh to the Upper House. In addition, Ashok Mittal (Chancellor of Lovely Professional University), and Sanjeev Arora (businessman-philanthropist from Ludhiana) were also nominated to Rajya Sabha from the same state.
With 92 seats in 117-member Punjab Assembly, AAP will easily win all the five seats.
With this, AAP’s strength in Rajya Sabha will rise to 8.
The 5 Rajya Sabha nominations by AAP for Punjab are as follows
1. Sandeep Pathak (IIT-Delhi Professor)
2. Raghav Chadha ( AAP MLA and Punjab Co-Incharge)
3. Harbhajan Singh (Cricketer)
4. Ashok Mittal (Lovely Professional University Founder)
5. Sanjeev Arora ( Businessman)