The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will contest the byelections to four Vidhan Sabha seats which are likely to be held in October.
An AAP core committee meeting, held under the chairmanship of state unit president Bhagwant Mann, decided this today.
Sources said the party unanimously decided to contest the byelections in Jalalabad, Phagwara, Dakha and Mukerian. While the first two seats fell vacant after sitting MLAs Sukhbir Singh Badal and Som Prakash were elected to the Lok Sabha, the Dakha seat fell vacant after MLA HS Phoolka had resigned. The Mukerian seat has fallen vacant after the demise of Rajnish Kumar Babbi.
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Accusing the state government of taking advantage of its “brute majority”, Mann earlier said the Congress ministers and leaders in Sangrur were pressurising AAP supporters to leave the party. “People are getting fed up with this majoritarianism by the Congress, “ he rued.