AAP drops eight sitting MLAs, fields two MPs as 25 new faces enter Punjab poll race

Neeraj Bali Chandigarh, Nov 12 - Punjab's ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday dropped eight sitting legislators, including Agriculture Minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian, and fielded two sitting members of Parliament in its second list of 31 candidates for the 2027 assembly elections, bringing in 25 new faces in a major reshuffle of its electoral line-up. The announcement takes the number of candidates declared by AAP to 71 for the 117-member assembly, leaving 46 constituencies where nominations are yet to be finalised. Of the 31 candidates in the second list, 25 are new nominees compared with the previous election, while…