Singh AAP’s youth volunteer and Sangrur district in-charge, joined party in 2013
Chandigarh: Acknowledging the hard-work of grassroot level workers, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday nominated Sangrur district in-charge Gurmail Singh as the Lok Sabha candidate from Sangrur, which is scheduled for June 23. Singh, a staunch worker of the party, joined AAP in 2013 and has been working industriously for welfare of the state.
He is an eminent environmentalist and has been running a plantation drive since 2008. Gurmail held significant posts from the circle in-charge of the party to the district in-charge. Currently, he is sarpanch of Gharachon village in Sangrur. Announcing him as a candidate for Sangrur bypoll, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday said that party has fielded Gurmail Singh, a volunteer connected to the ground, for the bypolls.
CM Mann, who had won from Sangrur parliamentary seat in 2014 and 2019, extended his good wishes to Gurmail and said Singh is a well-educated and a social activist, who has been working painstakingly for upliftment of the Sangrur constituency for years. Meanwhile, AAP won all the 9 assembly segments in the 2022 polls.
The seat had fallen vacant after CM Mann contested and won from Dhuri assembly segment in the recently held assembly polls.
