AAP to field contestants in all 5 LS seats, Harish Arya gets Almora ticket

Names of the other 4 candidates will be announced on March 9. Party insiders said Arya’s name had been declared earlier as Almora is a reserved seat and the party wanted to empower the downtrodden sections of the society first.

Dehradun: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which is riding high on the anti-corruption wave, has decided to field candidates on all the 5 Lok Sabha seats in Uttarakhand.

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The party on Thursday announced the name of Harish Arya as the official candidate for the Almora Lok Sabha seat. The names of 4 more candidates will be announced on March 9.

Party insiders say that Arya’s name has been declared earlier as Almora is a reserved seat and the party wants to empower the downtrodden sections of the society first.The party had earlier sought online applications where each probable candidate had to fill a form and attach the signatures of 100 voters.
But recently many more members have joined the party and they are also among the probable candidates.

The party’s second list is now expected in a few days and there are talks that the announcement might be made on March 9 when Arvind Kejriwal returns back to Delhi from Gujarat.The convener of the poll campaign committee Shamsher Singh Bisht says that the candidature of Harish Arya was announced early as he had been the convenor of India Against Corruption since the past two years and had an unblemished track record.