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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Raghav Chadha on Friday collected his certificate from the Returning Officer as he got elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha. After collecting the certificate, Chadha said, "All 5 candidates of AAP elected unopposed. We pray to God to give us strength to meet expectations of party & raise the issues of Punjab."
All five Aam Aadmi Party nominees for the Rajya Sabha polls have been elected unopposed from Punjab, officials said.
By nominating loyalists and businessmen, the Aam Aadmi Party has followed in the footsteps of traditional political parties, which it claims to take on.
IIT Delhi assistant professor Sandeep Pathak, Aam Aadmi Party’s Punjab co-in-charge Raghav Chadha and ex-spinner Harbhajan Singh are all set to file nominations for three of the five Rajya Sabha seats falling vacant from Punjab and set for elections on March 31.
Ahead of the March 31 Rajya Sabha elections for five of the seven seats from Punjab, academician Sandeep Pathak, AAP’s Delhi MLA and national spokesperson Raghav Chadha and former spinner Harbhajan Singh Bhajji have emerged among the frontrunners to bag the coveted nominations.