GG News Bureau
Chandigarh, 7th Oct. The AAP has decided to field Satender Singh as the party’s nominee for the Adampur assembly segment bypoll next month, senior leader Sushil Gupta stated on Friday.
Satender Singh, a former BJP member, joined the Aam Aadmi Party in Hisar last month in the presence of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
Singh stated after joining the AAP that he is influenced by the party’s ideology and that he will work for Adampur’s development.
The AAP is the first of the major parties to announce a candidate for the byelection, which was required after the resignation of Congress MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi.
On August 4, Bishnoi joined the BJP.
The byelection will be a litmus test for Bishnoi, the younger son of late Haryana chief minister Bhajan Lal, because the seat has been a family stronghold for the past five decades.
While the BJP has yet to name a candidate, Bishnoi stated on Thursday that the people of Adampur assembly segment want his son Bhavya to run, and he has informed the party of this.
Satender Singh, originally from Nayoli Khurd (Hisar), ran unsuccessfully for the Adampur seat on a Congress ticket in 2014. He later became a member of the BJP.
In 2014, Bishnoi was a leader of Haryana Janhit Congress, which he had merged with Congress in 2016 as he returned to the party fold, before leaving it again two months ago.
“Now, the contest will be between Adampur’s son (Satender) who lives here and is available when people need him, and BJP’s Kuldeep Bishnoi, who comes to Adampur only for a picnic and is rarely seen among the people of his constituency,” Gupta, who is AAP’s Haryana affairs in-charge, told reporters in Hisar.
Good governance, problem solving, education and health care are among the poll issues that the party will take to the people in the bypoll, he said.
Gupta spoke to reporters alongside AAP senior leaders Anurag Dhanda and Ashok Tanwar.
During a recent visit to Hisar, AAP national convener Kejriwal stated, “The people of Adampur want to get rid of a family here.” Adampur residents want the area to develop as well.
The byelection will take place on November 3, and the results will be announced on November 6.
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