CHANDIGARH: Aam Aadmi Party has fielded a businessman Rajinder Gupta as its candidate for sole Rajya Sabha seat from Punjab. The election for this seat will be held on October 16.
The Rajya seat was vacated with the resignation of Sanjeev Arora who successfully contested Ludhiana west seat and became minister in the Bhagwant Mann government.
Rajinder Gupta is owner of Trident Group and he was Vice Chairman of the State Economic Policy and Planning Board from where he resigned yesterday.
He has also Vice Chairman/ Deputy Chairman of the Planning Board during both the previous Congress and SAD-BJP regimes and has enjoyed the stature of a cabinet minister. Once a close confident of Sukhbir Badal, he was also a blue eyed boy of Capt Amarinder Singh and now he is most favourite of Arvind Kejriwal.