GMC Elections: AAP Announces First List of 10 Candidates

Guwahati: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday announced its first list candidates for the upcoming Guwahati Municipal Elections.

After a massive win in Punjab, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is eyeing to repeat its victory in the state too as the party had earlier announced to contest GMC.

AAP will contest in all the 60 wards with 99 per cent candidates to be picked from among the residents of respective wards.

Taking to micro-blogging site Twitter, AAP shared a list of 10 candidates.

''For the upcoming Municipality Election of Guwahati we have announced the first list of candidates. We will announce few more list in coming days..'' AAP tweeted.

Here's the list of Candidates of GMC Election, 2022

Faruque Ahmed- Ward 1

Bitu Raj Das- Ward 2

Chinu Boro- Ward 11

Kartik Sarkar- Ward 20

Jayanta Baruah- Ward 26

Debabrata Basumatary- Ward 27

Ditul Chandra Baruah- Ward 29

Soumik Sengupta- Ward 38

Sudipta Sharmah-Ward 59

Mintu Moni Sarma- Ward 60

''Kejriwal model will work in the Assam capital like the way it did in Punjab,'' a TOI report had quoted AAP National Council member and Assam in-charge Rajesh Sharma as saying.

In a bid to reach the masses of Guwahati, AAP has already started their digital campaign such as sending messages via digital platforms.

In the recently held Assam civil polls, AAP too entered the northeast as it made its debut with two seats after Delhi, Punjab and Gujarat.

The AAP candidate Dhiraj Kumar Singh won from ward no 11 in Tinsukia while Udita Das won from Ward no 14 in Lakhimpur.

Singh, who won by 183 votes defeated Hemant Sharma who is a Former Vice Chairman of Tinsukia Municipal Board and four-time ward commissioner.

On the other hand, Udita Das also won with a huge margin of votes.

Apart from these two candidates, two other AAP candidates named Prerna Karnani and Priya Malakar, stood second from ward number 6 and 7.

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