AAP CM Candidate Punjab Elections 2016 not declared, Durgesh Pathak Navjot Sidhu CM Candidates AAP Punjab, Who will AAP CM candidate 2016 2017 elections punjab
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AAP CM Candidate Punjab Elections 2016 not declared, Durgesh Pathak Navjot Sidhu CM Candidates AAP Punjab, Who will AAP CM candidate 2016 2017 elections punjab
New Delhi: The AAP is confident of sweeping the Punjab assembly polls but is in no hurry to decide who will be its Chief Minister, a party leader in charge of the state said.
Durgesh Pathak also said that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was ready for any decision by a parliamentary panel on its MP, Bhagwant Mann, who is accused of breaching Parliament's security, a charge Mann has denied.
Pathak, who has played a key role in building the party in Punjab, said he expected the AAP to win 95 to 105 of the 117 seats in the elections due early next year.
According to Pathak, the AAP won a quarter of the votes polled in Punjab in the 2014 Lok Sabha election which fetched it four seats - the only parliamentary victory it got anywhere in the country.
"A winning party in an assembly battle will need about 35 per cent of votes. As of now in Punjab, we have acquired a support base of 53-54 per cent. No wonder, C Voter survey is giving us 102 seats as of today."
The AAP's entry has made the coming Punjab election a triangular affair for the first time. Both the Akalis and the Congress admit their main foe is the AAP.
Pathak said there were many reasons why the AAP had grown so rapidly in Punjab.
Pathak, who is from Allahabad and who joined the India Against Corruption campaign of 2011 before embracing the AAP, said the Akalis, the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party had ganged up against Mann.